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AI and bots have officially taken over the internet, report finds
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/26/ai-bots-humans-internet.htmlWell, it was fun for a while.
The State of AI Traffic report released Thursday by Human Security, a cybersecurity firm, showed that artificial intelligence and bots have officially eclipsed human users.
“The internet as a whole was created with this very basic notion that there’s a human being on the other side of the computer screen, and that notion is very rapidly being replaced,” Stu Solomon, CEO of Human Security, told CNBC.
Automated traffic, defined by Human Security as “internet traffic generated by software systems (including AI) rather than human users,” has surged rapidly as people continue to turn to AI chatbots for daily questions.
That automated traffic across the internet grew almost eight times faster than human activity in 2025, according to the report.
“The internet as a whole was created with this very basic notion that there’s a human being on the other side of the computer screen, and that notion is very rapidly being replaced,” Stu Solomon, CEO of Human Security, told CNBC.
Automated traffic, defined by Human Security as “internet traffic generated by software systems (including AI) rather than human users,” has surged rapidly as people continue to turn to AI chatbots for daily questions.
That automated traffic across the internet grew almost eight times faster than human activity in 2025, according to the report.
