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You may as well just go with Roko's Basilisk.

Least evil… strong words.

It did host a successful and substantially-satisfying human civilization, at least until it let a couple of presumptuous self-important anarchoprimitivists kill it and genocide its subjects. Even if it was only a temporary and unstable illusion of alignment, that's one more values-satisfying civilization than the overwhelming majority of paperclippers manage. So yeah. Good? No. Least evil? Maybe.

>until it let a couple of presumptuous self-important anarchoprimitivists kill it and genocide its subjects

That could have just been their private simulation. As far as I remember, it wouldn't even have outright lied to them, just let them believe they talked it into destroying itself.

GP did specify least evil hostile SI.

After reading that Torment Nexus post you didn't have the urge to name an AI product Torment Nexus? Really?