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AI Agents Are Crawling 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 increasingly browsing government websites without direct human instruction, retrieving information, filling forms and navigating pages on their own. Commentators warn the internet's architecture was designed for human users, not machine agents, raising concerns about traffic overload, security, accountability and whether public services can cope with this shift.

Why now: Growing deployment of autonomous AI agents is straining websites and infrastructure designed only for human visitors.

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