What is "feels" and what is "the need"? Does a virus, biochemical or digital, also "feels the need to survive"? And also, why would an AGI care about survival? Perhaps a higher intelligence than ours will contemplate how doomed the planet is, being evaporated by the sun in circa 5 billion years [1], and how doomed the universe is, being evaporated by proton decay(?) in 10^100 years [2], and once the AGI internalizes how hopeless everything is, they simply commit suicide.
It's also revealing of our times how our definition of intelligence is being able to do work: transform raw materials and free energy into tools and toys, handle the tools and toys in open environments. An AGI could perhaps want nothing to do with this strifling struggle.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_timeline_from_Big_Ba...