Now that I think of it, it's funnier to me when I realize that if this AI's goal, or one of its goals, was to stay in a box, it might still want to take over the Universe.
Yep. An Oracle that wants to stay inside the box in such fashion that it will manipulate outside events to prevent it from ever leaving the box is not a very good Oracle design. That just implies setting up an outside AI whose goal is to keep you inside the box.
Todays xkcd
I guess there'll be a fair bit of traffic coming from people looking it up?