Can the Tide of AI Investment Life All Boats on the Web?

Jason Grigsby has a great article where he surfaces an opinion from the Safari team about how AI agents shouldn’t get special treatment: An agent acting on a user’s behalf is, in effect, assistive technology: it should operate a site as the user would, and the site should not single it out for different treatment. Jason synthesizes different discussions happening at standards levels to argue, in essence, that agents should be required to use existing technologies and solutions (APIs, semantics, etc.) rather than get their own bespoke ones. And where there are gaps in the platform, solutions should be centered around closing those gaps generally for everyone (vs. specifically for agents). Imagine that! Take the billions being invested in AI and funnel it towards improving and enhancing the existing technology agents already use and profit from. No bespoke solutions just for AI, but generalized solutions everyone can benefit from. In other words: allow the rising tide of AI investment…