It is genuinely a little spooky to me that we've reached a point where a specific software architecture confabulated as a plot-significant aspect of a fictional AGI in a fanfiction novel about a video game from the 90s is also something that may merit seriously consideration as a potential option for reducing AI alignment risk.

(It's a great novel, though, and imo truer to System Shock's characters than the game itself was able to be. Very much worth a read, unexpectedly tangential to the topic of the moment or no.)