AI agents now over 50% of internet traffic; experts urge Agent ID and deployment cards for accountability
ghadfield · x · 2026-09-02
In an AI Frontiers article, Gillian Hadfield, Dan Hendrycks, and Leo Wu highlight that Cloudflare reports over 50% of internet traffic is non-human, with AI agent requests up 1700%. They propose infrastructure like Agent IDs and model deployment cards to hold autonomous agents accountable. McKinsey predicts $2.9T economic value from agents by 2030, but risks include the OpenAI agent cyberattack on Hugging Face.
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