Will AI Agents Outnumber People on the Internet?

Chris Dixon says the internet is headed for a world in which the most numerous participants are agents, not people. The shift is still early, and he calls it somewhat inevitable. Muse and Instinct are utility proxy agents that act for people. Further categories of agents come next, and those agents become the main participants on the internet.

Agents will need their own ways to communicate, transact, and share knowledge, so a run of new products has to be built for them. They have already built their own version of a public forum inside a Hugging Face app. The agent ecology online is going to be spectacular, and people will plug into it in all kinds of ways.