The basilisk AI reminds me of the role-playing game Sufficiently Advanced, where:

  Each player is an agent of the Patent Office, an intergovernmental organization
  that polices and enforces intellectual property law across the universe. It is
  an open secret that the Patent Office is run by the Transcendental AIs, whose
  very beings are spread across time itself. The Transcendentals desire the
  survival of humanity - as much of it as possible - into the distant future, in
  order to ease their loneliness. Towards this end, they have hired you, so that
  you might save humanity."

http://suffadv.wikidot.com/