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Yeah, what Vauroch said. Humans aren't close to Friendly. To the extent that people talk about "friendly AIs" meaning AIs that behave towards humans the way humans do, they're misunderstanding how the term is used here. (Which is very likely; it's often a mistake to use a common English word as specialized jargon, for precisely this reason.)
Relatedly, there isn't a human such that I would reliably want to live in a future where that human obtains extreme superhuman power. (It might turn out OK, or at least better than the present, but I wouldn't bet on it.)
Just be careful to note that there isn't a binary choice relationship here. There are also possibilities where institutions (multiple individuals in a governing body with checks and balances) are pushed into positions of extreme superhuman power. There's also the possibility of pushing everybody who desires to be enhanced through levels of greater intelligence in lock step so as to prevent a single human or groups of humans achieving asymmetric power.
Sure. I think my initial claim holds for all currently existing institutions as well as all currently existing individuals, as well as for all simple aggregations of currently existing humans, but I certainly agree that there's a huge universe of possibilities. In particular, there are futures in which augmented humans have our own mechanisms for engaging with and realizing our values altered to be more reliable and/or collaborative, and some of those futures might be ones I reliably want to live in.
Perhaps what I ought to have said is that there isn't a currently existing human with that property.