>> There’s a very real/significant risk that AGI either literally destroys the human race

> If this were true, intelligent people would have taken over society by now

The premise you're replying to - one I don't think I agree with - is that a true AGI would be so much smarter, so much more powerful, that it wouldn't be accurate to describe it as "more smart".

You're probably smarter than a guy who recreationally huffs spraypaint, but you're still within the same class as intelligence. Both of you are so much more advanced than a cat, or a beetle, or a protozoan that it doesn't even make sense to make any sort of comparison.

Look up where the people in power got their college degrees from and then look up the SAT scores of admitted students from those colleges.

Of course intelligent people have taken over society.