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You don't have any evidence that AIs are generally dangerous (since we have AIs and the empirical evidence is that they are not), and you don't have a basis for theorising that Oracles are dangerous, because there are a number of different kinds of oracle.
So are out current AIs fooling is? We build them because they are better than us at specific things, but that doesn't give them the motivation or the ability to fool us. Smartness isn't a single one-size-all thing and AIs aren't uniform in their abilities an properties. Once you shed those two illusions, you can see much easier methods of AI safety than those put forward by MIRI.
I still think that if you can build it, it isn't magic.
A narrowly defined AI won't "care" about anything except answering questions, so it won't try to second guess us.
I have dealt with that objection several times. People know that when you use databases and search engines, they don't fully contextualise things, and the user of the information therefore has to exercise caution.
That's an only-perfection-will-do objection. Of course, humans can't perfectly scrutinise scientific discovery, etc, so that changes nothing.