The Machine Majority

<p>In June 2026, automated traffic passed human traffic on the open web for the first time, eighteen months ahead of Cloudflare&#39;s own forecast. In Episode 14, Laurence Gill breaks down the shift from AI that informs to AI that executes, the deterministic guardrails that make agentic automation safe to deploy, and the same capabilities now driving a sharp rise in credential-based cyberattacks. The episode closes with a practical framework for structuring data, evaluating emerging commerce standards, and hardening personal and organizational defenses in a web where the majority of visitors are no longer human.</p>