Cloudflare chief says humans will soon be 'a rounding error on the Internet' as bot traffic takes over — so what is it doing to combat this?

Cloudflare CFO Thomas Seifert forecasts that within five years, machine-generated internet traffic could be 1,000 times greater than human traffic, emphasizing the need for server efficiency to handle this surge. Despite past prediction errors, the trend shows bots and AI-driven traffic already surpassing human activity online, prompting Cloudflare to focus on infrastructure optimization to maintain internet usability.