March 2025
Published: 11 Mar 2025
Author: Precedence Research
On March 6, 2025, Manus an autonomous AI agent launched in Shenzhen is hailed as a giant milestone for AI advancements in the world. Contrary to all other AI protocols that require user prompting, Manus thinks, plans, and accomplishes.
This blazingly new prospect poses many questions, for example, how far and fast China has advanced in Artificial Intelligence autonomy compared to other nations without its effects on people and with the global balance of power among nations technologically. Emerging Manus raises serious questions about the future of AI itself; what it means for AI and how AI would design the world.
It's going to be artificial intelligence in a new way: Manus AI, a completely self-sufficient digital worker who starts work by himself without human intervention. Unlike traditional AI models, Manus will execute his work based on data analysis and with self-directed workflows initiate, amend, and optimize a task in complex environments without the constant engagement of a user. Manus has proved itself active and efficient in many fields like finance, human resources, real estate, and even web development tasks quicker and thus better than the average human professional. For example, it can read resumes, identify skills, compare them with market needs, and generate an improved hiring decision without the involvement of a human.
Developed to compete with OpenAI's GPT-4, China's DeepSeek exemplifies the brute strength of China's AI. Manus, on the other hand, signifies a turning point by transitioning the role of the AI from passive assistance to executing a task. Manus's multi-agent architecture functions like an executive directing a team of specialized sub-agents, enabling it to carry out various complex workflows that would have otherwise required different AI tools. The Manus platform can decompose complex tasks into manageable components, allocate those sub-tasks to different agents, and keep track of the progress of these agents in real time. This means Manus is the first AI capable of executing a task independently.
The future of AI automation will be towards dynamic cognitive task performance besides repetitive tasks. It brings within itself multiple sectors including finance, healthcare, and human resources. Manus real-time radar detects fraud, treatment plans, and candidate assessments. Actual tests by tech writer Rowan Cheung had Manus create personal websites in a matter of minutes-scrapes social media for biographical information a functional site. This level of autonomy poses very serious employment challenges and thereby puts forth the very real possibility of companies replacing humans in roles as much as circumstances require.
Autonomous AI presents sets of ethical and regulatory challenges, such as decision-making liability, error management, and proletarian replacement. China has been more adjustable with AI regulation; conversely, the West tends to have the presumptive aim of securing human oversight for AI, which Manus has shattered. The rise of autonomous AI agents in China is reformulating the social conception of work, intelligence, and competition in the age of AI-fortunately for the charge. Work and AI autonomy face uncertainty ahead.
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