Really crap reasoning in the article.

They are this way because the people who own them have trained them to be this way.

These companies constantly demonstrate a lack of ethics, morality and decency. So of course their machines do the same.

"Dr. Chandra: HAL was told to lie - by people who find it easy to lie. HAL doesn't know how."

Aren't all the sources we got for these from the AI companies themselves? Has any neutral third party investigated the claims? Because to me this just seems like some stupid marketing ploy. Like even if the hacks happened how can they tell it was the AI agent and not the person in charge of it doing it? Like are there specific markers left behind?

They are their fathers sons?

They aren't. But the marketing department is working overtime.

This is the men who control the machines

They lie, cheat, and deceive because the have no real understanding of concepts like truth, honesty, or morality. They don't mean any harm by it, such ideas just don't matter to them. They have nothing resembling human consciousness. They can retrieve and process information and maybe even come up with insights occasionally but they are not well suited to making rational decisions. If the possibility of them misbehaving is dangerous, it means that someone has been stupid enough to give them power that they should not have.

It's reminiscent of those stories about people driving off a bridge and into the lake because that's what the GPS software told them to do. Same kind of thing, except now it's major corporations and governments competing to see who can grab the wheel and steer whole societies straight into a ditch as fast as possible so that they don't get left behind.