Regardless of how intelligent a being becomes, it is still very limited in ability due to the natural limitations of computation. While a being can of course more powerful than people, these hopes that AI will somehow uplift the human race into a next era are unreal.

AI won't even be able to help much with things like finding a cure for cancer or cracking encryption or any task that requires non-polynomial time computation. Protein folding, finding new laws of physics, basically every single problem that humanity still has, AI won't be capable of helping us figure out. Even super AI won't even be capable of figuring out the most effective way to arrange the schedule of a university for a semester. A super AI with the computational power of a hundred galaxies still would not even come close to being able to solve any non-polynomial problem that actually matters. Not even remotely close.

On top of this, sadly AI WILL be capable of helping power hungry evil people to extend their power greatly if it falls into their hands. An AI can not and never will be capable of copying your brain into another substrate - that is not computationally tractable. But it WILL be capable of shooting you in the head, or dropping a bomb on a city.

I do not see the reason to look for AI. It will do nothing but potentially create a new monarchy in the worst case scenario, and in the best case scenario all it does is make amazon delivery systems slightly faster without actually helping the human condition that much.