Your prospective AI plans for programmer-understandability seems very close to Starmap-AI by which I mean

It's called the Global Association Table. The points or stars represent concepts, and the lines are the links between them.

The best story I've read about a not so failed utopia involves this kind of accountability over the FAI. While I hate to generalize from fictional evidence it definitely seems like a necessary step to not becoming a galaxy that tiles over the aliens with happy faces instead of just freezing them in place to prevent human harm.