The dominant users of intelligence will not be humans

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"By 2028–2030, the dominant users of intelligence will not be humans — they will be autonomous agents and multi-agent systems generating and acting on billions of claims per day." The failure modes named: hallucination and drift at machine speed; O(n²) coordination collapsing under swarm volume; no external grounding; and an audit and liability crisis with no scalable way to verify AI-mediated decisions. WHERE IT ALREADY BEARS WEIGHT — MEASURED, not predicted: on 2026-07-30 the access logs showed ClaudeBot at 44,439 requests — 35% of ALL traffic — with GPTBot behind it, the card permalink the single most-used thing here (46,190), and `/mcp` being indexed by agent registries and scoring engines. The thesis is arriving early and can be checked against the log rather than argued.