“My understanding is that actually agentic internet traffic already exceeds human traffic... I believe Cloudflare predicted that in five years, agentic AI traffic will be a thousand times more than human traffic. And if anything, I think that is underestimating the amount of agentic AI traffic.”
Said Nov 6, 2026Deadline Nov 6, 2031Fireside chat with Ron Baron, 33rd Annual Baron Investment Conference, November 6, 2026 (full transcript)
Musk was endorsing and extending Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince's forecast that automated traffic will be roughly 1,000 times human traffic within five years; Cloudflare Radar showed bots at about 57% of web-content requests in mid-2026.