Online Bot Traffic Will Exceed Human Traffic By 2027, Cloudflare CEO Says

AI bot traffic is set to exceed human web traffic by 2027, says the CEO of a company powering one-fifth of all websites.
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Online Bot Traffic Will Exceed Human Traffic By 2027, Cloudflare CEO Says
AI Bot Traffic Is About to Outnumber Humans on the Internet — And It Is Happening Faster Than You Think The internet as you know it is quietly being taken over. By 2027, artificial intelligence bots will generate more web traffic than actual human beings — and the man sounding this alarm runs the infrastructure behind one-fifth of the world's websites. This is not a distant forecast. The shift is already well underway, and it is reshaping how the web fundamentally works. The Cloudflare CEO Who Sees the Future of Web Traffic Matthew Prince, the chief executive of Cloudflare, made a striking prediction during an appearance at the SXSW conference in Austin this week. Speaking candidly about the rapid evolution of AI, Prince told attendees that the volume of bot-generated traffic on the internet is on a trajectory to surpass human-generated traffic within the next two years. For a CEO whose company sits at the infrastructure layer of a massive portion of the global web, that is not a cas…