Probably we disagree about what intelligence is. If intelligence is the ability to follow goals in the presence of obstancles the question becomes trivial. If intelligence is the ability to effectively find solutions in a given complex search space then little follows. It depends you the AI is decomposed into action and planning components and where the feedback cycles reside.
https://medium.com/backchannel/ai-wont-exterminate-us-it-will-empower-us-5b7224735bf3
(Slashdot discussion: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/12/10/1719232/ai-expert-ai-wont-exterminate-us----it-will-empower-us)
Not sure what the local view of Oren Etzioni or the Allen Institute for AI is, but I'm curious what people think if his views on UFAI risk. As far as I can tell from this article, it basically boils down to "AGI won't happen, at least not any time soon." Is there (significant) reason to believe he's wrong, or is it simply too great a risk to leave to chance?