It depends whom you ask. AGI, the ability of machines to match or exceed human intelligence and solve problems they never encountered during training, provokes vigorous debate and a mix of awe and dystopia. AI is certainly becoming more capable and is displaying sometimes surprising emergent behaviors that humans did not program.
The likely path is the evolution of machine intelligence that mimics human intelligence but is ultimately aimed at helping humans solve complex problems. This will require governance, new regulation and the participation of a wide swath of society.