AI and power corruption

My question is this:

The Matrix assumes that the machines (this supreme AI driven society). However, if this AI is so superior to human intelligence, and their society equally more superior: how come they are still subject to corruption?

In theory, when a human creates artificial intelligence, it would be to make up for a lack of certain qualities in the intelligence of humans in a whole: to create the perfect mind. Corruption via power has always been a flaw in human society, so why would we assume that this would plague a society of artificial life? Are we so sure, so perfectly absolute, that we can assume an artificial intelligence would also include this deadly flaw?

Who's to say? And I don't know if this made a lot of sense, it was just on my mind when I was examining this board.

I think you can be sure about the corruption. Like everything in the universe strives or leads to chaos, like a harddisk on your computer that needs defragmenting. the matrix needs defragmenting. Ai and computerprograms will try every possible way in the course of evolution, not knowing what is good or right until it has happened, so in the end corruption is certain to happen because it is a path AI will try...

I guess that makes sense, so really, AI is no more superior to human intelligence, despite what it seems to promote. And, dealing with evolution, its true that a program which uses odd, or rather power hungy ways to make copies of itself (say a virus) would serve better than a program of equal consistency (I don't know if that's the right word or not) that doesn't use power corruption methods.

I didn't know AI was assumed to be corrupt...
I actually think they are not and that they live more in some kind of a collectif social-society than in something like our very individual human society (in comparison to theirs that is). So the collectiveness of their race erases corruption; they 'do' as one.