Armstrong predicts AI agents will outnumber humans in near future
Brian Armstrong · Coinbase’s Everything Exchange: Agentic Finance, Stablecoins & Tokenization with CEO Brian Armstrong · Sep 10, 2026 · at 8:55
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong predicts the scale and rapid growth of the autonomous AI agent population.
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“I, there'll be more agents than humans in the not too distant future.”
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