Normal? AI is an alien technology to us, and we are being "normalized" to become compatible with it.
People weren't sure if human bodies could handle moving at >50mph.
I think it's more likely that AI is just a further concentration of human knowledge. It makes it even more accessible but will AI actually add to it?
Why doesn't the logical culmination of technology require quantum computers?
Or the merging of human and machine brains?
Or a solar system-scale particle accelerator?
Or whatever the next technology is that we aren't even aware of yet?
It's quite possible it's more like the computer in Star Trek. Highly capable and able to perform complex agentic tasks but lacks a will to act on its own.