The internet is getting remade for AI. What does it mean for you?
- Chandrima Banerjee
- TNN Feb 17, 2026, 08:48 IST IST
Less than half the people on the internet are “people” — only about 44% of online traffic came from humans in 2025 — but even within the traffic driven by relentless bots “using” the internet, a small but significant share of 4% belongs to AI bots.
If that share keeps growing (and it’s really likely that it will because of how much AI companies are pouring into agentic AI), most websites will eventually be built for AI and not us. Not in the conspiracy-heavy “dead internet theory” way but in the code-and-structures-tech-and-science way.
If that share keeps growing (and it’s really likely that it will because of how much AI companies are pouring into agentic AI), most websites will eventually be built for AI and not us. Not in the conspiracy-heavy “dead internet theory” way but in the code-and-structures-tech-and-science way.
