For me, there are few games that encapsulate the turn of the millennium better than Metal Gear Solid. This month marks the 25th anniversary of its release on PlayStation in Japan, but it hit UK shelves a few months later in 1999, the same year as the first Matrix movie. While my school peers were mimicking Keanu and dodging invisible bullets, whispers reverberated around the playground of a PlayStation game that was somehow even cooler. You played a grizzled spy who snarled at you through the speakers. You took out helicopters, duelled with cyborg ninjas and spent a lot of time hiding under cardboard boxes.

The way humans interact, communicate and share, are transforming rapidly. The pace at which AI is replacing the way humans work forecast the future to be fully automated even it seems to extinct the jobs. From homes to offices, Artificial intelligence will be penetrating such that the ratio of automation will increase and ultimately affect human jobs. Industries like banking, e-commerce, social media, estate brokers, gaming and insurance companies, all are taking advantage of AI-based solutions that conclude to be less expensive as compared to physical efforts. Artificial intelligence is used with a blend of many other strong and innovative technologies and algorithms and gives shape to state of the art solutions that no business can deny. Solving real-world problems – the way human does, they think.

It's hard to overstate what this and related advances portend. Even technologists who made fortunes paving the way for the AI future have begun to sound an alarm. Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, whose self-driving car technology includes plenty of AI, has called AI humanity's "biggest existential threat." Bill Gates seems to think the crisis is self-evident, saying he doesn't "understand why some people are not concerned." And if futurist Ray Kurzweil is right, by 2045, computer intelligence will match or exceed human abilities in every way – what he calls the "singularity."

There is not one but many definitions of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and its scope remains fluid and evolving. Some people even state that AI is everything that has not yet been done, referring to the observation that as the tools we use daily become increasingly sophisticated, tasks previously considered as requiring'intelligence' are now considered routine and get excluded from the AI definition. Think for example of a good spam filter, spell check or optical character recognition, all of which used to be considered revolutionary, but today don't impress people anymore. 'A constellation of technologies that extend human capabilities by sensing, comprehending, acting and learning – allowing people to do much more.' In other words, we put the focus on the ability of AI to complement and empower people instead of replace them. Therein lies the key: If you only look at AI from the perspective of a technology that'can do it all', it will fail and create problems within organizations and society.

"When you set your story in a specific city, it's a very sensitive thing to do," said David Cage, the director of the upcoming PlayStation 4 exclusive Detroit: Become Human. "You don't want to do it if you're not respectful of the place, of the people living there." Cage's next game with studio Quantic Dream deals with a near-future world where androids aren't a mobile operating system for your phone; instead they're "living" among us with hopes and desires of their own. Transcending their circuitry and, as the name suggests, being human. Detroit tells the story of several humanoid robots and is set entirely in the Motor City.

In 2011, Square Enix appeared to achieve the impossible, creating a new game in the Deus Ex canon that received both critical and public acclaim for a much lauded and iconic series. Human Revolution stayed true to the themes and gameplay mechanics of the original game and updated them for modern players without dumbing down. Mankind Divided is a direct sequel and certainly doesn't reinvent the wheel. If you loved Human Revolution, you'll love this, no question. Thematically the game excels, creating a near-future universe where advanced technology and poverty co-exist, against the backdrop of the threat of terrorism from a group representing'augs', humans with robotic limbs and implants. The display of segregation, paranoia and media-led hysteria is well framed, seemingly using current real world invents as inspiration.

It turns out Deus Ex: Mankind Divided's disruptive maneuver isn't just to render me superhumanly flexible, but to slow me to a crawl. To make me want to linger over inches of screen space, trawling for painkillers, grenades, EMP bullets, and upgrades to my tweaked out wetware. Eidos Montreal's cyberpunk roleplaying game for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, out August 23, has its obligatory action box. And you can check it. I'm hunting for passwords and PINs stored on strangely hip-again PDAs or carelessly dropped in emails. I need these to unlock doors and computers, to disable security cameras, gun turrets and homicidal security robots.