I don't think AGI is right around the corner

It is not. There is a certain mechanism in our brain that works in the same way. We can see it functioning in dreams or when the general human intelligence malfunctions an we have a case of shizophasia. But human intelligence is more than that. We are not machines. We are souls.

This does not make current AI harmless; it is already very dangerous.

One thing that is obvious when you deal with current AI is that it is very adept with words but lacks understanding. This is because understanding is different from forming word sequences. Understanding is based on the shared sameness. We, people, are same. We are parts of a whole. This is why we are able to understand each other with such a faulty media as words. AI lacks that sameness. There is nobody there. Only a word fountain.