Most people decide whether to stay on a web page within about 10 seconds. On a phone, the window is even tighter.
Most people decide whether to stay on a web page within about 10 seconds. On a phone, the window is even tighter.
It sounded like the setup for a joke. It turned out to be a serious study, and it deserves more attention than it has had. The study is called Emergence World and was run by US company Emergence AI. The aim was to stress-test what happens when AI agents operate on their own for long periods, not just for one chat or one task.
When someone types a broad question into ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, or Perplexity, they think they’re getting one answer to one question. Behind the scenes, that’s not what’s happening at all.
Over the last few months, a clear pattern has emerged in the consulting work landing on our desk at Agent 6: businesses coming to us after rebuilding their website with an AI tool, only to watch their traffic and leads collapse in the weeks that followed.