AGIs hiding in basements are not an existential threat. Joking aside, what you describe isn't really different to the present (or past) - so it doesn't warrant

AGIs hiding in basements are not an existential threat. Joking aside, what you describe isn't really different to the present (or past) - so it doesn't warrant much of concern in relation to AGI. People have followed ideologies and ideas into doom throughout history, it is not clear that AGI is a change there then. That is, if that type of AGI ever exists in the first place. Maybe real AGI has different desires?