Max Tegmark: The ability to reach complex goals
Stephen Wolfram: Realising that there is no genuine distinction between intelligence and mere computation [...] / Now we think we're special because we have intelligence and nothing else does. I'm afraid the bad news is that there isn't a distinction.
Christoph Koch: Intelligence is function and in that different from consciousness (being/experience). "Historically we associate consciousness with intelligence, because we live in a world of natural selection [...]."
"Intelligence is represented by reaction time." → we are more stupid than our grandparents
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/057414-001-A/das-raetsel-unserer-intelligenz/
https://nickbostrom.com/superintelligentwill.pdf
The Orthogonality Thesis
Intelligence and final goals are orthogonal axes along which possible agents can freely vary. In other words, more or less any level of intelligence could in principle be combined with more or less any final goal.
On Consciousness and other moral issues:
Faking consciousness vs true con. – true con. requires a unified definition of con. – we dont have an idea what it is so creating doesn't seem feasible as of now