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When programmers code faulty software then it usually fails to do its job. What you are suggesting is that humans succeed at creating the seed for an artificial intelligence with the incentive necessary to correct its own errors. It will know what constitutes an error based on some goal-oriented framework against which it can measure its effectiveness. Yet given this monumental achievement that includes the deliberate implementation of the urge to self-improve and the ability quantify its success, you cherry-pick the one possibility where somehow all this turns out to work except that the AI does not stop at a certain point but goes on to consume the universe? Why would it care to do so? Do you think it is that simple to tell it to improve itself yet hard to tell it when to stop? I believe it is vice versa, that it is really hard to get it to self-improve and very easy to constrain this urge.
It often does it's job, but only in perfect conditions, or only once per restart, or with unwanted side effects, or while taking too long or too many resources or requiring too many permissions, or not keeping track that it isn't doing anything except it's job.
Buffer overflows for instance, are one of the bigger security failure causes, and are only possible because the software works well enough to be put into production while still having the fault present.
In fact, all production software that we see which has faults (a lot) works well enough to be put into production with those faults.
I think he's suggesting that humans will think we have succeeded at that, while not actually doing so (rigorously and without room for error).