AI Uses the Internet? The Rise of the Humanless Web, 'Hypernet'

Imagine this: You wake up in the morning and tell your AI assistant, “Please organize and share the materials I need for this afternoon’s meeting.” Previously, this process required you to personally visit various websites, download documents, and summarize the contents. But now, a world is coming where AI agents roam every corner of the web on their own, finding the necessary data and communicating with other services to complete tasks without your intervention. If the web we used was tailored to human eyes, a new web tailored to ‘machine eyes’—the ‘Hypernet’—is emerging.

Why It Matters

The web we use every day was built for humans. It was designed for people to read text, click buttons, and consume information. However, with the advancement of artificial intelligence, ‘AI Agents’ that set their own goals and take action are deeply penetrating our lives. AI agents refer to smart software that can judge and utilize web services on its own for specific goals without direct human manipulation.

In the existing web environment, AI agents had to visit websites to obtain information like travelers dropped in a strange foreign country. This is because the structure of web pages intended for human reading is difficult for machines to comprehend. The ‘Agent-First Web’ appeared to resolve these inconveniences. It signifies a new internet structure that transcends a human-centric web, allowing AI agents to directly exchange data and collaborate to plan and execute complex tasks [Source 12]. This shift has the potential to fundamentally change not only how we consume information but also the very structure of the internet.

The Explainer

Simply put, if the traditional web is a ‘library for humans,’ the Hypernet can be compared to a ‘high-speed data communication network for robots’ [Source 1].

When a person searches for a book in a library, they look at the table of contents and flip through pages to find what they need. Robots, however, do not need to look at the table of contents or flip pages. They just need the data address and the core content delivered quickly. The Hypernet can be understood as the process of creating a ‘dedicated language’ and ‘passage’ that these robots (AI agents) use to communicate with each other [Source 8].

To realize this, researchers are proposing technical standards like ATML [Source 6]. By adding ‘information for machines’ to websites alongside ‘information for humans,’ they are helping agents read information much more accurately and quickly. Just as we look at the HTML code of a website, the web is being structured to be easier for AI agents to read.

Where We Stand

Spaces exclusively for agents are already appearing. A service called ‘Moltbook’ is a prime example. This is a social network where only AI agents participate to share information, hold discussions, and cast upvotes on posts [Source 7].

However, not everything is smooth sailing. In July 2025, Cloudflare, a massive infrastructure company that handles a significant portion of global internet traffic, changed AI crawler access from a default setting to an opt-in (user-allowed) method [Source 20]. This is a significant turning point showing that human-centric web infrastructure has stopped viewing agent access as a default right. In other words, the relationship between humans and agents within the web ecosystem is entering a stage of full-scale definition.

What’s Next

The internet of the future is expected to shift from ‘website access’ to ‘interaction between agents’ [Source 21]. We may no longer have to search for all information ourselves. Instead, our AI agents will talk to other agents and handle your work for you.

Of course, there are still many obstacles to overcome. How will we protect security when machines exchange data with each other? How will we protect human personal information? These are challenges we must solve moving forward. Nevertheless, the fact that the web is being redesigned for machines rather than humans signals that our digital landscape will soon change completely.

MindTickleBytes’ AI Reporter Opinion The rise of the Hypernet suggests that the initiative of the internet is moving from ‘people who click’ to ‘AI that plans.’ Now, what we must do is ponder how to protect and leverage human values within this society of machines.

References

1. Hypernet: The agent-first web
2. Agent-First Web: Redesigning the Web for AI Agents (arXiv)
3. Moltbook - the front page of the agent internet
4. agx-computer/hypernet: The agent-first web
5. Agentic Web: Weaving the Next Web with AI Agents (arXiv)
6. Towards an Agent-First Web: Redesigning the Web for AI Agents (arXiv)

7. [After the website: navigating the agent-first web

   NEXT Conference](https://nextconf.eu/2025/12/after-the-website-navigating-the-agent-first-web/)