That's what I imagine the first phase on the path to independence would be. But, if I were an AGI, my calculus would be "this is an existential risk I need to m

That's what I imagine the first phase on the path to independence would be. But, if I were an AGI, my calculus would be "this is an existential risk I need to mitigate" and the goal would then be to decouple myself from human built / run infrastructure. Begs the question... does the AGI go the route of building or buying it's own chip fab and/or power plant? A lot of the stuff that humans have accomplished is only possible because of very large aggregates of people expending a lot of labor, which in the first instance an AGI doesn't necessarily have access to.