That's why Asimov had it right with his Three Laws of Robotics -even when they match or supercede human intelligence their actions would still be governed by what will be most beneficial to humans.
See some of Asimov's later robot novels on this. Interpretation of the laws by the robots did become a little hazy in the later novels however. For instance in one, a superintelligent robot decides that to best implement the three laws, there should another one called the zeroth law that supercedes all others: a robot must not allow Humanity to come to harm.
Since this supercedes the 1st law, not to harm individual humans, there could be cases where a single human or several humans would have to be destroyed for the best interests of humankind.
Bob Clark
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- As long as they feed me and provide a flea collar I'll have no complaints. Woof!!! (n/t)
- If so, it can only be attributed to human logic (n/t)