Cloudflare CEO: Bot Traffic Will Exceed Human Traffic Online by 2027
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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince told TechCrunch that AI-generated bot traffic is growing so rapidly that automated agents will outnumber human web users by 2027. Prince cited the explosion of agentic AI workflows — agents browsing, scraping, and interacting with APIs on behalf of users — as the primary driver. This has direct implications for rate limiting, CAPTCHA infrastructure, authentication systems, and web analytics that all currently assume human-majority traffic.