If we distinguish between intelligence and agency, it is possible. I can easily imagine a machine with no agency, but which can synthesise intelligent response

If we distinguish between intelligence and agency, it is possible. I can easily imagine a machine with no agency, but which can synthesise intelligent responses to input data. In fact, this is what chatGPT does. If a machine has no goals or agency of its own then it is an intelligent tool. It can, of course, be used for evil, but you would not say that the machine was "choosing" evil.