Thinking out loud AI and Cancer Cure

Anyone else ever think how every week there's another article and news story about how advanced AI is getting and how fast it's progressing, usually reported as a threat to society. If it is so alarmingly powerful, why has a super genius not OP'd on Opus 5.5 Max and discovered a cure for cancer or some horrible disease... I use my AI good for making dashboards and looking at spreadsheets, call to the super geniuses who are also scientists please find a cure!!