People have <i>already</i> studied this. You make it sound like an open question, but the answer is <i>right there</i> in Bostrom&#x27;s Superintelligence, or any works on cognitive heuristics &amp; biases, the physics of computing, or the mathematics of decision making. The answer is &quot;no. we are nowhere near the smartest creatures possible&quot;. And there are multiple independent lines of argument and evidence that point directly to this conclusion.