[lurker616]

I've heard of some of the famous viruses which are obviously more complicated than what I mentioned. But that's the difference - they are hardcoded to perform these particular steps. I'm not saying AGI is the code that does this. AGI is one level higher - a more meta objective - given the objective of "accumulating power", it will learn lower level objectives like "replicating and spreading", which leads to the final output like this code.

Basically, AGI could unleash a thousand "morris worms" - and that would only be for the objective of replicating and spreading. There could be other objectives as well.