No, you are ignoring Xi's context. The claim is not about what a programmer on the team might do, it is about what the AI might write.

You are just lying. Some of what I wrote:

Why wouldn't the humans who created it not be able to use the same algorithms that the AI uses to predict what it will do?

The goals of an AI will be under scrutiny at any time. It seems very implausible that scientists, a company or the military are going to create an AI and then just let it run without bothering about its plans. An artificial agent is not a black box, like humans are, where one is only able to guess its real intentions.

A plan for world domination seems like something that can't be concealed from its creators. Lying is no option if your algorithms are open to inspection.

What asr wrote was just much more clearly.