It will surely be of huge help to humans in the near future, but how it will help and engage with human beings will entirely depend on how it is constructed, controlled, or processed within society.

How the AI will benefit people in the near future

1. Health care: AI will change the health care world with a quicker diagnosis, customized prescription plans, and even new drug findings, which can help the elderly through robotics and assistive technologies.

 2. Automation and Efficiency: It will increase efficiency in manufacturing, agriculture, logistics, etc., and would reduce man-hour inputs of humans in hazardous or repetitive work.

3. Education: AI will learn more specific needs every individual student, providing timely feedback enabling facilitation of educators.

4. Climate Change and Sustainability: AI will be applicable in the monitoring environmental change, in predicting the pattern occurrences, optimization of energy consumption, and recommendation of solutions toward sustainable practice.

5. Decision Making: Artificial intelligence can analyze big data and give the populace in government, business, and individual levels insight that can lead to more informed decisions-making especially on complex issues such as economic forecasting, policy-making, and global health crises.

Can AI exist in the future without humans?

At least technically, living without humans would not be something that AI would "live" like a human being or an animal, as AI lacks consciousness, desires, or separate existence. It is nothing but a tool created, maintained, and guided by humans.

But possibly in other spheres like factory management or energy infrastructure operations, AI may work entirely without human involvement of any kind. That nowhere claims that AI is even remotely self-sufficient-as living beings are so obviously-as a kind of "self-acting." Let those systems lie idle-are left unchecked-or unmaintained-they will fail, and potentially crash outright, for the structure, data, and machinery that they depend upon have been created by humans.

With the advancement of technology, questions relating to "independence" within the ethical and practical sphere are also going to be at the heart of the focus. While most experts argue that for safety and accountability and control of the process, AI should always come with a degree of human oversight.

In short, AI undoubtedly benefits humans in manifold ways, but it doesn't imply that it'll "live" without humans in the sense of that it'll sustain its normal functions without human guidance or oversight. Its future role stands on the ways we'd choose to develop and govern it.