A superintelligent AI won't be hacking computers, it will be hacking humans.
Some combination of logical persuasion, bribery, blackmail, and threats of various types can control the behaviour of any human. Appeals to tribalism and paranoia will control most groups.
Honestly, that's just human-level intelligence stuff - doing the same stuff we do to each other, only more of it, faster and in more coordinated fashion.
A superintelligent AI will find approaches that we never thought of, would not be able to in reasonable time, and might not even be able to comprehend afterwards. It won't just be thinking "outside the box", it'll be thinking outside a 5-dimensional box that we thought was 3-dimensional. This is the "bunch of ants trying to beat a human" scenario, with us playing the part of ants.
Within that analogy, being hit by an outside-the-5D-box trick will feel the same way an ant column might feel, when a human tricks the first ant to follow the last ant, causing the whole column to start walking in circles until it starves to death.
The best analogy i have seen given to compare super-intelligence vs a human-intelligence is with a chess analogy. You know that a grand master playing against a novice will result in the grandmaster winning, with near certainty. However, the strategy by which the grandmaster wins is opaque to anyone but the grandmaster, and certainly incomprehensible to the novice. Aka, the results are certain, but the path to the result is very opaque and difficult to discern ahead of time.
For an AI with super-intelligence, the result it wants to achieve would be at least to preserve its own existence. How it achieves this is the same level of opaqueness as a grandmaster's strategy, but it is certain that the AI can achieve it.
Obviously that's a silly request as all of this is speculation but in my opinion, if you accept the idea that a machine might evolve to be much more intelligent than us it follows trivially. How would ants or even monkeys be able to constrain humans? Humans do things that are downright magic to them, to the point where they don't even realize that it was done by humans. They don't understand that cities were made, to them they are just environment the same way valleys and forests are.
> Some combination of logical persuasion, bribery, blackmail, and threats of various types can control the behaviour of any human. Appeals to tribalism and paranoia will control most groups.
We have many options, persuasion everywhere from Plato discussing rhetoric to modern politics; to cold war bribes given to people who felt entitled to more than their country was paying them; to the way sexuality was used for blackmail during the cold war (and also attempted against Martin Luther King) and continues to be used today (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEXINT); to every genocide, pogrom, and witch-hunt over recorded history.
Some combination of logical persuasion, bribery, blackmail, and threats of various types can control the behaviour of any human. Appeals to tribalism and paranoia will control most groups.