Because the point of a self-modifying AI is that it will be able to self-modify in situations we don’t anticipate. Being able to predict its self-modification in principle is useful precisely because we can’t hard-code every special case.
Because the point of a self-modifying AI is that it will be able to self-modify in situations we don’t anticipate. Being able to predict its self-modification in principle is useful precisely because we can’t hard-code every special case.