As AI becomes more human-like, what will happen to humanity?

It’s looking increasingly likely that 2025 will be the year “My people will talk to your people” becomes “My AI will talk to your AI.” Are you ready?  OpenAI recently introduced an artificial intelligence model that emulates human-like reasoning about complex problems. It even shows the steps in its reasoning, so that humans (or other AIs) can check its work. This advance was quickly emulated by other AI developers. What then followed was “agentic AI,” where AI agents can be given a complex goal, use their new reasoning power to work out the complex steps necessary to achieve that goal, and then, if given control of a computer, do what is necessary to achieve the goal.   Google, OpenAI and Anthropic had already made such agents available to their customers, at a cost. Then, the Chinese startup DeepSeek launched AI models that compete with the best U.S. models and come free of charge.   This has spooked investors in U.S.-based AI. DeepSeek isn’t just new competition for established players; it created its model without the latest processors and at a fraction of the cost of its rivals. Moreover, the model is open, allowing other AI developers to understand how it works, emulate it and use it in novel ways.   Most importantly, DeepSeek AI’s entry into a previously closed market will accelerate the presence of AI agents, profoundly affecting humans and human society.   It isn’t hard to see how agentic AI will make businesses more efficient. AI agents will speed up business processes,…As AI becomes more human-like, what will happen to humanity?