Just to clarify, I do mean what I say. Even if the corporation produces for the most reprehensible people you can imagine, how is that worse than everything ending for no reason?
Has given an entity with spending power something that (it thought) it wanted. Context considered, there might be no humans involved.
the corporation is not autonomous. Some humans decided what it wanted - mostly profits.
The "context" I'm referring to, which you've omitted from your quote, is that this is a discussion about the book "Superintelligence". In this context, it's entirely possible that a corporation could be autonomous.
For example, environmental destruction and labor abuse. There is always "a group of people" that want that kind of thing. Not a majority, but that doesn't matter.
But an 'advanced' artificial intelligence wouldn't do that anyway, because 'advanced' means that you 'understand' - are aware of - the emergence and self-organization of 'higher-dimensional' structures that are build on a foundation.
Once a child understands Legos, it starts to build more and then more out of that ...
A lot can be build out of paperclips, but an 'advanced' AI would rather quickly find the dead end and thus decide - in advance - that maximizing the production of paperclips is nonsense.