The rise of AI agents could fundamentally change the design of the internet, researchers said.

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“The rise of AI agents could fundamentally change the design of the internet, researchers said. Tech firms are racing to develop AI tools capable of navigating the web and performing tasks on users’ behalf. The web today is “very much designed for humans,” one expert told IEEE Spectrum, but an “agentic web” would look very different, increasingly driven by machine-to-machine interactions with no humans involved, and with information more densely packed. Bots are already changing online life: Reddit’s cofounder said that “much of the internet is now dead,” with LLM-run social media accounts talking to each other. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also recently raised the “dead internet theory” that there is more bot than human activity on the web.”