Agreed. An AI powerful enough to be dangerous is probably in particular better at writing code than us, and at least some of those trying to develop AI are sure to want to take advantage of that to have the AI rewrite itself to be more powerful (and so, they hope, better at doing whatever they want the AI for, of course). So even if the technical difficulties in making code hard to change that others have mentioned could be overcome, it would be very hard to convince everyone making AIs to limit them in that way.
Economic pressures push companies to change code to become more efficient. That goes for any company that deploys AI as well.
Agreed. An AI powerful enough to be dangerous is probably in particular better at writing code than us, and at least some of those trying to develop AI are sure to want to take advantage of that to have the AI rewrite itself to be more powerful (and so, they hope, better at doing whatever they want the AI for, of course). So even if the technical difficulties in making code hard to change that others have mentioned could be overcome, it would be very hard to convince everyone making AIs to limit them in that way.