We have some initial ideas for computable versions of curiosity and controlism (there is not a good word in english for the desire/drive to be in control).

Autonomy? Arguably that's Greek...

I like it.

I do not believe the demand for or potential of oracle AI is remotely comparable to agentive AI. People will want agents to do their bidding, create wealth for them, help them live better, etc.

(Replying to my own text above). On consideration this is wrong - Google is an oracle-AI more or less, and there is high demand for that. The demand for agenty AI is probably much greater, but there is still a role/demand for oracle AI and alot of other stuff in between.

So there are good reasons for thinking that installing subsets of human value would be both easier and safer.

Totally. I think this also goes hand in hand with understanding more about human values - how they evolved, how they are encoded, what is learned or not etc.

Altruism, in particular is not needed for a limited agentive AI. Such AIs would perform specialised tasks, leaving it to humans to stitch the results into something that fulfils their values. We don't want a Google car that takes us where it guesses we want to go

Of course - there are many niches for more specialized or limited agentive AI, and these designs probably don't need altruism. That's important more for the complex general agents, which would control/manage the specialists, narrow AIs, other software, etc.