The grey goo problem had been foreseen even back when nanobots were just a theoretical concept. If nanobots had the ability to reproduce themselves, be it intended or otherwise, then a chain reaction of exponential growth would overrun the planet as everything was consumed to make more nanobots. Their programming would tell them to reproduce until no other materials existed.
So they avoided this by giving nanobots an intelligence field, so once it got to a set density it would have enough intelligence to stop.
Or, sadly, enough intelligence to know how to increase its intelligence beyond humans, the enemy.
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