I think you are confused about what an AI is.
AI doesn't imply self-awareness or conciousness.
You can make an AI that just regulates stuff without ever asking questions.
Yeah I mentioned that earlier. You need intelligence so that your machines can be autonomous and creative in their decision-making.
But you want to avoid self-awareness because you want to make sure they will obey.
Consciousness is only desirable if you want to create a computational replica of your mind. If you want immortality or something.
Well, i don't think you want creativity in this case.
The whole idea of RBE is that the decisions the AI takes are more scientifically sound than what humans could oversee. So the idea is that it needs to be based on facts, not creativity.
Atonomy is not a problem per se. Your computer does lots and lots of autonomous things.
The problem is maybe that we would not like the cold hard decisions of such a system would make without our personal concent and with no human emotions to fall back on.