Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince predicts that AI bot traffic will exceed human traffic by 2027, driven by the rapid advancement of generative AI. Speaking at SXSW, Prince highlighted that AI bots can visit up to 1,000 times more websites than humans during tasks, significantly increasing their internet presence. Prince noted that before generative AI, bots accounted for only 20% of internet traffic, a figure that is now rapidly increasing. He stressed the need for new infrastructure, such as AI agent "sandboxes," to manage this growth and warned of the pressure it will place on data centers and servers. Prince described AI as the next major platform shift, following the move from desktop to mobile.