OReilly/Event/25/09/AI Codecon/1200 Death of the Browser Rachel-Lee Nabors

• Death of the Browser – Person/Rachel-Lee Nabors

  • Overview

    • Duration: 15 minutes
    • Time: 12:00
    • Speaker: Person/Rachel-Lee Nabors
    • Event: OReilly/Event/25/09/AI Codecon
    • Resources: PDF

  • Description

    • Exploration of how the internet has become a maze of walled gardens, ad-powered content, and algorithmic manipulation
    • Discussion of AI agents as the key to putting users back in the driver's seat
    • How agents can create interfaces that adapt to user needs and preferences while providing privacy and accessibility features

  • Key Topics

    • Problems with current web browsing experience
    • AI agents as solution for user control and privacy
    • Technical implications of the shift from traditional browsers
    • Emerging technologies for direct content distribution and access
    • Privacy and accessibility features that traditional browsers can't match
  • My Notes
    • This is version 3 - they've been tooling this for 9 months
    • 12:04 has worked with mozilla on firefox devtools, worked on react
    • 12:05 their favorite personal agent is Goose
      • they are looking up solutions to puzzles
    • …Searches on Safari dipped for the rst time last month, which [Cue] attributed to people

      using AI. Cue said he believes that AI search
      providers, including OpenAI, Perplexity AI Inc.
      and Anthropic PBC, will eventually replace
      standard search engines like Alphabet s Google.
      

      • Bloomberg article: bloom.bg/4kFzVDe
    • 12:07 3 types of traffic
      • Human reads and perceives content, including ads.
      • Crawler indexes and scrapes content.
      • Agent performs tasks on behalf of humans.
    • 12:08 they discuss "Comet" to reach out to people ... on linkedin?
    • 12:08 will we even need a browser?
    • 12:09 using notion and claude to search opportunities - MUCH better than linkedin and jobs boards
      • "I rarely use LinkedIn anymore"
      • "I was able to get 9 offers and land two roles which I was never able to do before"
    • 12:09 5 Pillars of the agentic web
    • 12:10 Agent Interoperability protocols - MCP, Agent Communication Protocol ACP, A2A
      • What's ACP? What is Agent Communication Protocol (ACP)? | IBM
    • 12:11 Payments - subscriptions, micropayments, sponsorships
      • "the ad-supported web is broken"
      • Co/Visa is working on something called AgentPay
    • 12:12 Discovery and Discernment - recommendation engines, ranking, algorithms
      • Google and Facebook do this today, but they are monoliths
      • doing this in a decentralized way is harder, it hasn't been done before
    • 12:13 AIOS Foundation
      • [2403.16971] AIOS: LLM Agent Operating System
    • 12:16
    • 12:14 They recommend NLWeb - github.com/microsoft/NLWeb
    • 12:16 "Tarpits" are meant to distract agents
      • Sabot in the Age of AI
      • A list of offensive methods & strategic approaches for facilitating (algorithmic) sabotage, framework disruption, & intentional data poisoning.
      • example https://tldr.nettime.org/@asrg/113867412641585520
    • 12:19 on-device AI features
      • https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/built-in
    • 12:19 mentions @ATProtocol
      • "Adopt social networking Protocols"
    • There's something called "MCP UI" MCP-UI
      • a project by Ido Salomon, in collaboration with Liad Yosef.
      • I'm not sure I understand yet, but I'm fascinated