# The mistake of conflating intelligence and power I had an interesting discussion recently. Someone asked me, what is intelligence? I said, the ability to achieve your goals across a wide range of domains. Okay, he says, then by that definition isn’t Donald Trump the intelligent person in the world, followed in quick succession by Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin? To be clear, these people are obviously very competent and clever. But when you think of ASI, you don’t think of Trump, but more so.…