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Are there more bots than people on the internet?

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Feb 6, 2026
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Summary

Having an AI agent act as your personal executive assistant may seem like a sweet deal, but security experts have a few concerns. Also on the program, Moltbook is a new social media platform specfically designed for AI agents to chat. So far, they’ve started a religion, made their own scripture and called for humanity’s downfall. What happens when we anthropomorphise binary code? And, the dead internet theory used to be a fringe conspiracy theory. But AI is getting us closer and closer to it being a reality. So, how much of the internet is still occupied by humans? GUESTS: Kai Riemer, professor of information technology at University of Sydney, and and director of Sydney Executive Plus. Tegan Jones, deputy editor at SmartCompany and co-host of Weird Tech .