Whenever Elon, Anthropic or whoever mentions humanity, they don’t mean every 8 billion of us on Earth. They mean themselves, their mates and whoever they deem worthy of the posterity they believe only they have the merit to design.
There's a period between the "beginning" of the modern age and today where we had these strange interstitial technologies. It sometimes feels like we went from living in the dark to electricity to the digital age in big jumps, but there's been a lot of evolution in between. Today will seem quite quirky to people 10, 20 and 50 years from now.