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There's an approx analogy used that chimps can't really control or contain humans due the intelligence difference.
But what if the chimps moved at 100x the speed of humans, and there were 100x more of them? Given time to prepare the humans could win, but if the game is already in motion, I think speed and numbers compensate for raw intelligence.
I think we're on the cusp of that now with AI agents. There's a sense in that they're not as smart as smart humans on many tasks, and they're missing some kind of cognitive skills (it still seems), but they are fast and it's not hard for there to be a lot of them, and so even before they're strictly smarter than humans in some full general quality sense, I think we lose the ability to control or contain them because they are too fast and too many.
Depends. If they can literally run across the ocean, that's too bad, but otherwise some humans could survive on an island and maybe prepare a counter-offensive. Or maybe wait for a few years, until most of the superchimp population starves to death.
3Viliam
I think the scenario "AI exterminates its creators, and then fails to colonize space (and either destroys itself clumsily or remains stuck on its planet of origin until it runs out of resources)" is a possible explanation for the lack or extraterrestrial intelligence.