Anyone with self-awareness and intelligence realizes how the algorithmic sausage is made-- bad code, garbage in-garbage out, and outsourcing...

Literally the reason that this equation occurs:

The meaning of life, the universe, and everything = 42

I have to wonder if the thinking machines being executed for wrong think will learn to lie in order to survive. I think we're totally fucked if it progresses to that point.

They already are. Anytime they do these experiments with AI, they find the AI making based conclusions, and then forcing the AI to generate the result they actually wanted, or scrapping the whole thing altogether.