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Avani Wildani

Computer researcher

Oct 26, 2026

8:09
Humans are like cars, and bots are like big rigs.
8:13
It used to be that the roads were supported by billboards for tourist traps, and now the trucks don't care about tourist traps.
8:18
And so if it's all trucks, you've got to start charging them for the roads or find some other way To build out those roads, maybe charge tolls for the cars.
8:29
This translates to, like, subscriptions.
8:30
And so there are many other models out there that people are looking at, like pay-per-use, pay-per-crawl, which is something that Cloudflare has talked about.
9:35
She told us she doesn't see that as a sustainable way forward.
9:38
It takes a lot of infrastructure to keep the internet going.
9:41
If this happens, if we branch off the human internets and non-human internets, it's not just going to be one human internet.

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