Humans are no longer the dominant force on the internet. Automated bots make up more than half of global internet traffic. Your instinct is that human beings visit websites and send email. That’s outdated. Bot activity surpassed human-generated activity for the first time in 2024. AI models, automated crawlers, good bots, and especially bad bots have begun to take over, doing more online than people do. Our global communications network is used for many things besides browsing websites, so let’s make it even more alarming and hard to understand. If you narrow the focus and only measure...