Artificial intelligence (AI) is marking a turning point in the history of technology, and 2025 will bring even more surprises.
It's not easy to predict what lies ahead, but we can highlight trends and challenges that will define the near future of AI for the coming year. Among them, the challenge of the so-called "centaur doctor" or "centaur professor" is key for those of us involved in AI development.

The Explosion of AI-Based Science

AI has become an essential tool for addressing major scientific challenges. Areas such as healthcare, astronomy and space exploration, neuroscience, and climate change, among others, will benefit even more than they already are.
AlphaFold (which deserved the Nobel in 2024) has determined the three-dimensional structure of 200 million proteins, nearly all of those known.
Its development represents a significant advancement in molecular biology and medicine. This facilitates the design of new drugs and treatments, and 2025 will mark the explosion of its use (which, by the way, will be freely accessible).
Meanwhile, ClimateNet uses artificial neural networks to conduct precise spatial and temporal analyses of large volumes of climate data, which is essential for understanding and mitigating global warming.
The use of ClimateNet will be crucial in 2025 for predicting extreme weather events with greater accuracy.

Medical Diagnoses and Judgments: The Role of AI

Justice and medical diagnosis are considered high-risk scenarios. In these areas, it is more urgent than in any other field to establish systems where humans always have the final decision.
AI experts are working to ensure user trust, that the system is transparent, protects individuals, and places humans at the center of decision-making.
This brings us to the challenge of the "centaur doctor." Centaurs are hybrid human-algorithm models that combine formal machine analytics with human intuition.
A "centaur doctor + AI system" improves decisions made by humans on their own and decisions made by AI systems on their own.
A doctor will always be the one to press the "accept" button, and a judge will ultimately determine if the sentence is fair.

The AI That Will Make Decisions for Us

Autonomous AI agents based on language models are the target for 2025 for major tech companies like OpenAI (ChatGPT), Meta (LLaMA), Google (Gemini), and Anthropic (Claude).

So far, these AI systems make recommendations, but by 2025, they are expected to make decisions on our behalf.

AI agents will perform personalized and precise actions in tasks that aren't high-risk, always tailored to the needs and preferences of the user. For example, they may purchase a bus ticket, update your calendar, recommend a specific product, and even make the purchase.

Additionally, they could respond to our emails, a task that consumes significant time during the day.

In this regard, OpenAI has launched AgentGPT and Google Gemini 2.0, platforms for the development of autonomous AI agents.

On the other hand, Anthropic is proposing two updated versions of its Claude language model: Haiku and Sonnet.