Fun Fact: in some places it's a separate charge to have child pornography on a work computer vs a personal computer. Found that out browsing the local jail roster.

And if everyone in the audience was keenly interested in funding or getting their hands on the technology

This completely ignores the ways in which neural networks end up with human biases and bigotry trained into them by interactions with actual humans. And given that they're intended to mimic human behavior/results, there's no way you can give them safeguards that are an innate part of the system's logic. And inclusion of safeguards into the logic of the AI is, by your own definition, "human moral bloatware". So your post doesn't even make sense.

So it's an unconscious evolutionary code generator, guided by an internal response to an external assessment. I suppose you could try to use it to generate a better version of itself and maybe come across something that thinks... After years... You'd really have to stress it out with a ton of different domains of problems to make something that flexible though