# What happens to the internet when robots act like humans?

DevFeed: [What happens to the internet when robots act like humans?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-happens-to-the-internet-when-robots-act-like-humans-2200.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/07/31/what-happens-internet-when-robots-act-like-humans/>)

Author: Phoebe Sajor

Published: 2026-07-31T07:40:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Stack Overflow Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/stack-overflow-blog.md>)

Topics: [AI Bots](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-bots.md>)

Tags: [agentic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic.md>), [agentic-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic-ai.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-governance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-governance.md>), [bots](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bots.md>), [podcast](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/podcast.md>), [robots](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/robots.md>), [se-stackoverflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/se-stackoverflow.md>), [se-tech](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/se-tech.md>), [wordpress](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/wordpress.md>)

## AI overview

A podcast discussion about AI agents acting like humans online, the shared human-and-agent internet experience, and protecting human actions from malicious bots.

## Source excerpt

Ryan welcomes WPEngine CTO Ramadass Prabakar to the show to chat about what happens--and what we should do--when agents start acting like humans online, how our internet is evolving to serve both human and agentic experiences from the same interface, and what we can do to differentiate and protect human actions online from malicious bot activity.