Why would intelligence lead to power?
One might say that “Intelligence is no match for a gun, or for someone with lots of money,” but both guns and money were produced by intelligence. If not for our intelligence, humans would still be foraging the savannah for food.
Intelligence is what caused humans to dominate the planet in the blink of an eye on evolutionary timescales. Intelligence is what allows us to eradicate diseases, and what gives us the potential to eradicate ourselves with nuclear war. Intelligence gives us superior strategic skills, superior social skills, superior economic productivity, and the power of invention.
A machine with superintelligence
An AI with cognitive abilities far greater than those of humans in a wide range of important domains.