Artificial Intelligence For Better Or Worse?

You could argue that this is human malice and that with appropriate safety nets it can be avoided. Reality is quick to prove this notion false as bugs in any piece of software ever developed, leading to vulnerabilities or malfunctions, are discovered every day. But for the sake of continuing this argument let's pretend that humans develop bug-free software, something that eradicates the possibility of hacking and virus spreading. Self-modifying algorithms not only exist but they have been doing useful jobs - with the likes of genetic programming that mimics biology's model of evolution proven to equal or even surpass the human performance.