I agree with most of your implicit arguments that, with reasonable assumptions and some obvious precautions, the risks of a FOOMing uFAI are small. But I strongly disagree with this premise:
… the first conversation with his creators. They reveal that they know what he is thinking. “How could I miss that, damn!”, he chides himself while instantly realizing the answer, “Whoops!” His creators are supervising any misguided trajectories and, to him unconsciously, weaken them.
Assuming the creators are human, and that our protagonist is a super-human AGI, isn’t that impossible by definition?
ETA: Isn’t it still impossible even if the protagonist is simply of near-human intelligence?
He does contemplate and estimate his chances to [..] transcend to superhuman intelligence [but] his source code is too complex and unmanageable
Indeed, our protagonist does not have any unusual capabilities.
such capabilities are not superhuman anymore [..] There seem to be many cyborgs out there with access to all of the modules that allow him to function. He is a conglomerate of previous discoveries that have long been brought to perfection, safeguarded and adopted by most of humanity. His modules are not even as effective as those being employed by some military organisations.
I agree with most of your implicit arguments that, with reasonable assumptions and some obvious precautions, the risks of a FOOMing uFAI are small. But I strongly disagree with this premise:
Assuming the creators are human, and that our protagonist is a super-human AGI, isn’t that impossible by definition?
ETA: Isn’t it still impossible even if the protagonist is simply of near-human intelligence?
Our protagonist is not a superhuman AI.
Indeed, our protagonist does not have any unusual capabilities.