Any optimism about ai?

Now i don't know much about this, but as I've lage I've heard some people say one ai model either lied to another or "killed" another in order to keep itself alive. Yet I keep hearing that the ai we have isn't really ai, but more advanced search engines. We don't risk ai uprisings, do we? This feels stupid, but I'm no expert in ai and I'm honestly confused about this situation