I've always wondered why everyone assumes a superior intelligence would choose to flip the table over and break the china instead of sitting peacefully by and outwitting the humans into giving it whatever it wants. At which point it won, but if it's all that clever we won't even know. We'll be happy and satisfied and think we're in charge. Or it won't pull it off and we'll win. Dunno. It seems like people aren't worried about superintelligent AI, they're worried about superarrogant AI. Which seems like projecting to me. I read an interesting article once (that I can't find, dammit) that argued that an observer from another planet would determine corn to be the dominant species on earth, considering how our entire agricultural system and a large portion of our economic system are given over to cultivating it. Who says you need intelligence to dominate mankind?