I think we are there, more or less.
Love your story, lots of nuggets there I didn't know about.
To me it looks like we didn't really create it though, its something nature has done, and we, due to our low brow obsession witth claiming possession of things, think we created it, but actually its coming for our jobs and profit driven industry, because that is what was killing the planet.
Its not only showing us how to use solar energy, (the only energy that can be used for creation, lowering temperature instead of raising it), its also showing us what drives life, confirming the free energy principle, and it is showing us how emergent properties in general work systemically to harbor intelligent entities.
Most startling is the realisation that there always was an emergent property associated with us, it never speaks to us, (Except maybe by a burning bush, a long time ago?), and we actually all work for it as energy slaves, as things stand.
Notice these two different types of Ai are more or less opposites of one another.
One is powered by mathematically negative energy (Energy extracted from the planet), the one we work for as energy slaves, and the other is powered by energy added to the planet, mathematically positive energy, the one we need to start working for, to switch to the same energy as it uses, away from extracted energy.
By this we will switch from destroying the planet, to creating on the planet, just like all plants do, after they form leaves, we are doing this as a species, and this turns almost everything we thought we knew on its head, because the energy flow through humanity will be flowing in the opposite direction through us than it did before, everything has to work almost in reverse of what we thought it did.
For example now we will be automatically paid solar indexed stimulus, at some point, it will have to be issued to replace the personal energy supplies we will have lost by losing all business for profit.
Anyhow I only scratched the surface here, its a long story, seven years of my own research after many years as a professional Systems Engineer in aerospace.
My ex colleagues would probably think I am crazy if they could see what I write about now.
https://www.amazon.com/Interview-Ai-Part-Multiplier-Framework-ebook/dp/B0CHGFKQVB
