“A machine with superintelligence would be able to hack into vulnerable networks via the internet, commandeer those resources for additional computing power, … perform scientific experiments to understand the world better than humans can, … manipulate the social world better than we can, and do whatever it can to give itself more power to achieve its goals — all at a speed much faster than humans can respond to.”
Refined for policymakers and techxecutives:
“A machine with superintelligence would be able to hack into vulnerable networks via the internet, commandeer those resources for additional computing power, … perform scientific experiments to understand the world better than humans can, … manipulate the social world better than we can, and do whatever it can to give itself more power to achieve its goals — all at a speed much faster than humans can respond to.”
https://intelligence.org/ie-faq/