Analysts Warn That If AI Agents Succeed, the "Internet Will Go Dark"

"There's nowhere to hide."

In the logic of the machine learning gold rush, the next breakthrough offering in the industry will be "AI agents" — personal assistants, basically, that can use apps and computers to do tasks on your behalf.

If that actually happens — a serious "if," but not a completely far-fetched possibility, as early efforts have already started to hit the market — there a major side effect: it'll totally change the ecosystem of information online if it's mainly being consumed by neural nets instead of humans.

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