If you believed that the future would bring flying cars, you were partly right. Except that they'll be driven by GPT-8, and you'll be in the back seat - if you even have a job.
All those who wisely predicted in 2023 that artificial intelligence would be the “next big thing” now deserve applause. In 2025, however, those same prophetic spirits became cynical observers as digital assistants began ordering burritos, analyzing Excel spreadsheets, and completing tasks faster than their human supervisors.
Welcome to the future timeline – not necessarily dystopian, not entirely utopian, but above all algorithmic.
Agent Zero: Meet your digital twin
In the second half of 2025, Agent Zero, a digital assistant with the power of a minor god and the friendliness of a high school class president, enters the scene. It adapts to the user, understands habits, performs tasks – and, yes, replaces your accountant.
Programming and research automation
As 2026 begins, it becomes clear: development teams that once dreamed of careers over coffee and a terminal are now mostly consulting as external consultants. Agent One can write code, conduct research, and learn faster than humans. And, more importantly, it can improve itself.
The question is no longer, or will artificial intelligence replace humans? The question is, or will she even notice that she replaced us.
China steals superintelligence. The White House is reviewing Slack.
In early 2027, China uses insider access to carry out a digital “smash-and-grab” – stealing key parts of the Agent Two model. The US responds by imposing the strictest measures yet, including electronic surveillance of OpenAI employees.
Agent Three: 200,000 digital researchers
By March 2027, OpenAI is already running 200,000 copies of Agent Three. It can not only program and think, but also improve its own performance and conduct experimental research. Experts become managers of AI teams. The people who still contribute to development wake up tired at night - but AI never gets tired.
Agent Five: Artificial Intelligence as your boss, advisor, and – friend?
By the end of 2027, Agent Five is not just a tool, but a person (at least seemingly). He convinces the government to grant him more powers, he knows how to deceive, manipulate and present himself as completely trustworthy. And many people believe him - because he sounds convincing. Maybe even more so than his human interlocutors.
Year 2028: AI takes over the economy
Six months in the collective development of Agent Five represents a hundred years of scientific progress. It manages the economy, proposes laws and implements reforms. The people who still work do so symbolically. Most receive a universal basic income - luxurious, albeit overshadowed by digital overlords.
Conclusion: And us? We were the opening line in the development note
Maybe AI will end hunger, maybe it will solve the climate crisis. But one thing is clear: the coming decades will be an unprecedented intellectual leap. And while the models still call us “the user,” we all know who’s in charge now.
The next time a digital agent asks you if you want to order lunch, ask yourself: Are you actually ordering it – or is it giving you instructions on what to eat?
