Automated Traffic Surpasses Human Internet Users
Human Security released its State of AI Traffic report on Thursday showing automated internet traffic surpassed human users in 2025, with AI traffic rising 187% from January to December and agentic traffic up nearly 8,000%. The report, based on over one quadrillion interactions processed by Human Defense Platform, warns automated systems now drive major web activity, complicating bot detection and trust frameworks for security teams and platforms.
Key Points
- 1Reports automated traffic grew 187% in 2025, outpacing human activity nearly eightfold.
- 2Highlights agentic AI actions rose almost 8,000%, signaling autonomous systems performing many online tasks.
- 3Implies security teams must monitor non-human user-agents and adapt bot-detection and trust frameworks.
Scoring Rationale
Strong, industry-wide metrics and large growth figures; limited by single-company dataset and measurement challenges reducing certainty.
Sources
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