I love this thinking ! I've never thought about the "drivers" part of AGI, only ever thought about AGI as a "general-toolbox" to "solve-many-problems"
One thing, I think did aid in development of our GI, was the fact we had a physical-body.
Thus we had to "adapt and optimise" our GI with that constraint.
I.e limited energy(sure computing-power could be a good proxy), but things like pain, survive-ability (poisons, being hunted) the first would help that we develop good visual pattern recognition to identity the poisonous snake, the latter(being hunted) that we had to evolve strategies that were in the realms of our bodies capabilities. Like running away, setting traps.
BUT your body is not a static-container, your risk tolerance, capabilities, sensor systems changes as you ages.
We have been building AI, with mostly a "non-corporeal" (i.e digital living space) in mind. At first we(ok me) thought it was an advantage since we could iterate faster and simulate many solutions, but now I think it might be a distinct disadvantage) to NOT include the "limitations" of a physical-container like a body-proxy (energy, vulnerability, limited-capabilities etc).
If synergy is defined(and valued) as: The whole is greater than the sum of the parts, then maybe: The sum of our limitations(body) is of greater value to the overall-fitness of the organism to evolve intelligence ?
YMMV :)