I put the odds at pretty strong that the story will turn into a UFAI cautionary tale, where Harry and/or Quirrel FOOMs and the results are not pretty.
I put those odds quite low, because it’s a story about rationality and only incidentally about the Singularity. The overall moral of the story has to be consistent with EY’s conviction that becoming truly rational helps (rather than hurts) you in moral dilemmas. To quote an analogous bit of the story:
And if Harry had thought ‘rational’ people did defect in the Prisoner’s Dilemma, then he wouldn’t have done anything to spread that kind of ‘rationality’, because a country or a conspiracy full of ‘rational’ people would dissolve into chaos. You would tell your enemies about ‘rationality’.
I put those odds quite low, because it’s a story about rationality and only incidentally about the Singularity. The overall moral of the story has to be consistent with EY’s conviction that becoming truly rational helps (rather than hurts) you in moral dilemmas. To quote an analogous bit of the story: