Unleashing AI Agents

Setting a bunch of A.I. agents loose on the internet could provoke a backlash. If you’re a business buying ads on Amazon, you want those ads to be seen by humans, not bots pretending to be humans.In the future, I can imagine more websites taking steps to block A.I. agents or steer them toward certain pages or products.

Right now, A.I. agents are too incompetent to be much of a threat. But it doesn’t take much imagination to envision a near future when most of the web will consist of robots talking to robots, buying things from robots and writing emails that only other robots will read.

Kevin Roose  writing in the New York Times