I want a medium sized, talented and rational team who seriously care, not every AI programmer in the world who smells money.

I'd rather pay the rest of AI researchers to play games and browse web, than have them work independently on their seed AIs without friendliness component. As for "to date" I meant "up to the point when I receive the money".

Also, even after years of studying for it I wouldn't trust me, or anyone else for that matter, to make that switch-on decision alone.

Me neither. I, however, would trust myself to make the "don't switch on yet" decision alone.