Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Monday, May 5th. Today on Forbes, AI is making the internet's

bot problem worse. This $2 billion startup is on the front lines. The internet is drowning

in bots. They already make up about 50% of all internet traffic, a number that's poised to skyrocket

to 90% by 2030 as people start using so-called AI agents to do mundane internet tasks on their

behalf, like open accounts, shop for shoes, buy tickets, and order food.

It's a huge problem for companies.

Online retailers don't want bots to scoop up coveted

products faster than any human could. Banks need to make sure fraudsters aren't able to take

over accounts, and social networks want to keep out impersonators. Nor do they want to prevent

the growing number of good bots from doing what their owners intend.

Throw artificial intelligence into the mix, and it gets worse.

Old school bot detection techniques like CAPTCHAs, where users are asked to select squares that contain a motorcycle or decipher a scrambled word to prove their humans, are simply no

match for sophisticated models.

And AI has also made it magnitudes easier to mimic a person's voice,

spoof their face, and create fake IDs, according to Rick Song,

co-founder and CEO of Identity Verification Platform, Persona.

Song, who is 34 years old, told Forbes, quote,

maybe this constant distinguishing of,

is this a bot or not, is kind of a pointless distinction that may not make sense anymore.

The real question is just who's behind the AI

and what's their intent.

Making sure that a user is who they say they are

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