I think you're probably right, but this should be treated as an unknown, and wouldn't be something I'd be comfortable to assume. You could imagine a fish argui

I think you're probably right, but this should be treated as an unknown, and wouldn't be something I'd be comfortable to assume. You could imagine a fish arguing that if something can't swim fast and doesn't have sharp teeth then it poses no threat regardless of it's intelligence. But this is just because fish evolved to not be eaten by bigger fish and its intelligence and limited knowledge of the world makes it unaware of the other threats they could face. So while I agree it would be hard to imagine, a super intelligence in theory might find a way to affect the outside world. Perhaps this could be through some unknown physics, or more conceivably, perhaps it would first pose as a helpful AI showing humans how to build advanced robotics only to later co-opt those robotics for its own objectives.