SELF DRIVING SEAR : INTERNET PRECIS

SETTING a bunch of A.I. agents loose on the internet could also provoke a backlash from web publishers, e-commerce sites and other businesses that rely on human-generated traffic to pay their bills.

[ If you are a business buying ads on Amazon, you want these 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.

The self-driving internet is almost here in other words - get your clicks in while you can.

The World Students Society thanks Kevin Roose.