[PollardsRho]

People are hurt by animals all the time: do you think having a higher IQ than a grizzly bear means you have nothing to fear from one?

I certainly think it's possible to imagine that an AI that says the exactly correct thing in any situation would be much more persuasive than any human. (Is that actually possible given the limitations of hardware and information? Probably not, but it's at least not on its face impossible.) Where I think most of these arguments break down is the automatic "superintelligence = superpowers" analogy.

For every genius who became a world-famous scientist, there are ten who died in poverty or war. Intelligence doesn't correlate with the ability to actually impact our world as strongly as people would like to think, so I don't think it's reasonable to extrapolate that outwards to a kind of intelligence we've never seen before.