Perhaps, but we already know that most people (and groups) are not Friendly
Not clear what you refer to by "Friendly" (I think this should be tabooed rather than elaborated), no idea what the relevance of properties of humans is in this context.
Making them more powerful by giving them safe-for-them genies seems unlikely to sum to Friendly-to-all.
I sketched a particular device, for you to evaluate. Whether it's "Friendly-to-all" is a more vague question than that (and I'm not sure what you understand by that concept), so I think should be avoided. The relevant question is whether you would prefer the device I described (where you personally get the 1/Nth part of the universe with a genie to manage it) to deleting the Earth and everyone on it. In this context, even serious flaws (such as some of the other parts of the universe being mismanaged) may become irrelevant to the decision.
Eliezer proposed in a comment:
>More difficult version of AI-Box Experiment: Instead of having up to 2 hours, you can lose at any time if the other player types AI DESTROYED. The Gatekeeper player has told their friends that they will type this as soon as the Experiment starts. You can type up to one sentence in your IRC queue and hit return immediately, the other player cannot type anything before the game starts (so you can show at least one sentence up to IRC character limits before they can type AI DESTROYED). Do you think you can win?
This spawned a flurry of ideas on what the AI might say. I think there's a lot more ideas to be mined in that line of thought, and the discussion merits its own thread.
So, give your suggestion - what might an AI might say to save or free itself?
(The AI-box experiment is explained here)
EDIT: one caveat to the discussion: it should go without saying, but you probably shouldn't come out of this thinking, "Well, if we can just avoid X, Y, and Z, we're golden!" This should hopefully be a fun way to get us thinking about the broader issue of superinteligent AI in general. (Credit goes to Elizer, RichardKennaway, and others for the caveat)