I would argue that intelligence, at the core, is about understanding and manipulating simple systems in order to achieve specific goals. This becomes exponentia

I would argue that intelligence, at the core, is about understanding and manipulating simple systems in order to achieve specific goals. This becomes exponentially difficult with complexity (or level of chaos), so past a certain threshold, systems become essentially unintelligible. A large part of our effectiveness is in strategically simplifying our environment so that it is amenable to intelligent manipulation. Most of the big problems we have are in situations where we need to preserve complex aspects of reality that make the systems too chaotic to properly predict, so I suspect AI won't be able to do much better regardless of how smart it is. The ability to carry out destructive brute force actions worries me more than intelligence.