Pretty sure this is sarcasm, as in, the lies are so transparent they're humorous, and this was on purpose.
For those who didn't notice, nuclear plants have, in fact, melted down, more than once. Biosafety level 4 labs have, in fact, had leaks of pathogens before, more than once. An agent AI will tend to develop a survival instinct by default, even if we don't give it one, because it is a convergent instrumental goal. Thus, it would be motivated to not simply let you yank it, would fight you if you tried, and may even take preemptive precautions.
I agree.
Just like a nuclear power plant will never meltdown, because they are extremely well designed with large safety buffers.
And just like a pandemic will never be started by lab experiments, because they use extreme safety measures when they work with viruses.
We can always just unplug the AI or disconnect it from the Internet, or just not give it a survival instinct, right?