AI Bots Officially Surpass Human Internet Traffic for First Time — AI-Driven Traffic Up 187% YoY

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Human Security's 'State of AI Traffic' report confirms bots have eclipsed human users online. AI-driven traffic surged 187% year-over-year, with automated traffic growing 8x faster than human traffic. Traffic from AI agents like OpenClaw grew nearly 8,000% in 2025. The report, based on over one quadrillion interactions from Human's Defense Platform, predicts AI bots will definitively exceed human traffic by 2027, driven by generative AI's 'insatiable need for data.'