No

self-select its own advancement

It’s a program that writes text, that’s why it’s called a “Large Language Model”; “AI” is just a hype term.

It’s not self-aware, it can’t make arbitrary decisions, and it doesn’t have free will

(PS I’m interpreting “AI” as "LLM"s, since other kind of Machine Learning models have been used for many years before we came up with the LLMs we have today)