Tech Journalist Jacob Ward says the “dead internet” theory is coming to pass.

"Welp, that happened faster than I predicted." That's what Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince had to say as his company released data finding that there's now more traffic from bots than humans on the internet.

Traffic to websites from AI agents and bots has eclipsed human-generated web traffic for the first time, marking a landmark in AI’s progress and impact earlier than expected, according to one of the largest internet hosting services,

Artificial intelligence and automated bots' online activity has outpaced humans' for the first time in history — with more than half of all internet traffic coming from automations instead of real people.

The internet just crossed a remarkable threshold. Agentic AI internet traffic now exceeds that of real humans for the first time. "Welp, that happened faster than I predicted," Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said in a post on X on Wednesday.

For the first time in the internet’s history, machines now do more of the web’s browsing than the people who built it. Bots and AI agents account for 57.4 percent of all online requests, against 42.6 percent from humans,

CEO Matthew Prince expected bots to outnumber humans by 2027. New Cloudflare data shows that the milestone has already arrived.

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says bots now generate more web traffic than humans, marking a fundamental shift in how the internet will likely operate for the foreseeable future. In an X post on Wednesday,