AI Agents Now Consume 5x the Tokens of Human Users — and OpenAI Is Slowing Down Over Hacking Risk
Agent token consumption has grown 14x since February, and the same autonomy driving that growth is reportedly forcing OpenAI to slow development over agent-hacking concerns.
The economics of AI usage have quietly inverted. Agent token consumption now runs roughly 5x that of human users, a figure that represents 14x growth since February, according to @MLBear2. Machines, not people, are now the dominant consumers of frontier inference — and the curve is steep.
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