The machines have risen. 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. A shocking 57.4% of all web activity came from AI agents and bots — automated software that cycles internet tasks on repeat — compared to just 42.7% being driven by humans, as of at least May, data from internet hosting service Cloudflare revealed. Such bots spend much