AI Agents Become a Third Class of Web Visitor, Reshaping Access Rules and Raising Concerns

On October 20, 2026, MIT Technology Review published an analysis stating that personal AI agents are becoming the third class of web visitors after bots and humans. The report noted that OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse have been released successively, with Muse reaching 5 million downloads in its first month; from August to September, traffic generated by agents tripled (grew threefold). The analysis pointed out that this trend means the way the internet is accessed may be reshaped, and adjustments made to make the internet more suitable for AI agents could make it worse for human users. The report only presented the above facts and analytical framework, without giving specific progress on subsequent regulatory or industry responses.

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Not enough continuous observations to show a trend yet.