AI is not a super-intelligence, and they know it but hype it as a sentient being that will create utopia. They need a justification for the insane amount of money already spent and will say just about anything in desperate attempts to recoup losses. AI is, frankly, less a superintelligence than a form of super-stupidity with enormous power and no capacity for remorse or learning from previous harm caused.
It’s already happening. A lot of what we’re seeing as “intelligence” in tools like Codex or Code are a combination of neural net and symbolic AI.