Welcome to the Agentic Internet: AI Agents Are Already Reshaping Online Life

TL;DR
A technology columnist argues that autonomous AI agents—capable of acting on the web, signing in, paying, and running tasks—are already proliferating and making the internet more annoying, from inbox spam and account actions to new dynamics in reservations and advertising, signaling the rise of an agentic internet that will worsen as more services enable agent access.
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