It puzzles me that people think that the nanosecond some superintelligence comes into being, that it also has the capacity to destroy humans/earth/whatever. No

It puzzles me that people think that the nanosecond some superintelligence comes into being, that it also has the capacity to destroy humans/earth/whatever. No thought is given as to how this intellect gets said capacity, bar 'launch the nukes'. Seriously, if "it" turned against "us", we'd have the upper hand. For example, quality electronics are hard to make without sending African children down into mines and having African adults shoot each other over the results (ie: conflict minerals). If a superintelligence is reliant on us to propagate its physical-world interactions, we're going to be just fine. I mean come on, we all work in IT, and we all know just how difficult it is to keep hardware running securely, safely, and in good order. Stuff fails all the time. Similarly, we all know people who are really intelligent, but this doesn't translate to success in life for them. In short, "being intelligent" isn't enough - the entity also needs ways to effectively work the world around them. edit: heh, just saw another article on the front page: "IQ is only a minor factor in success"