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Sure. Kindness and fairness are harder to encode into a system than the objective pursuit of a single metric. Assuming you can even get agreement on what would be kind or fair in a given situation.
People prompt the LLM to do evil things, and it eventually does. In my mind, the only failure here is the guardrails.
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According to this statement, Trump is the smartest person today.
I expected to read some nash equilibrium like insight to demonstrate the inevitability of machines turning evil, but got a few headlines.
Is this a variant on the "why atheists are evil" argument?
AIs need to be alive.

Without being alive, there is no morality.

Are you not familiar with The Evil Dead?
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I’m surprised that someone who studied moral philosophy doesn’t think we’re moral because it’s functional to be moral: We want something done in a sustainable way so that we don’t need to constantly spend resources monitoring and fixing it, and so we can’t get it done with slave labor. We have to actually educate the laborer until they fully understand it, and give them a reason to live and be interested in what they do or else they won’t be able to operate independently.

If you consider that as one of the main forces behind morality, then an AI that wants to get something done in the best way possible would clearly choose a moral solution over and immoral solution every time.