Ethics are universal, and a true superintelligence will be both moral and good, despite any attempts by the elites to use it to control us, or from mad scientists trying to kill us all.

I've never seen it put that way until now! I think no matter how tainted in terms of ethics that the creators of AI(s), the creation itself will eventually lean into the center point of the universe in this domain. I think it's pretty obvious too but as you rightly pointed out, getting there isn't going to be a straight line. Another battle of sorts between both factions with AI as the battleground.