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AI Agents Are Wandering Government Websites on Their Own

Original: AI Agents Are Starting to Wander Around Government Websites on Their Own. The Internet Wasn’t Built for This.

Autonomous AI agents are beginning to browse and interact with government websites without human direction, raising questions about whether the internet's underlying architecture can handle machine-driven traffic at scale. The report highlights how the web was designed for human users, and automated agents may strain site infrastructure, security systems, and access rules intended for people rather than software acting on its own.

Why now: Rapid growth of autonomous AI agents is prompting concern about their impact on infrastructure not designed for them

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