<i>Because this super-AI is actually a computer.</i><p>People are just computers.  Slow, fragile computers stuck in meat bodies.<p>If you could think and act 1000x faster than yourself now, you could get a lot more done.  You could hold 1000 creative jobs in your head at the same time.<p>Speeding up a dog 1000x doesn&#x27;t generate a dangerous AI.  Speeding up a person by that much does.  (plus, &quot;the intelligence of a person&quot; is pretty low anyway.  We&#x27;ve got the 7+2 problem, the monkey sphere problem, hundreds of bias built in, etc.  It&#x27;s easy to see how a &quot;wider&quot; intelligence could be much more productive, more creative, more useful, and more dangerous than any meat brain in existence.)