“Can AGI have motivation to help/destroy without biological drives?”

Human motivation is deeply tied to biology—hormones, instincts, and evolutionary pressures. We strive for survival, pleasure, and progress because we have chemical reinforcement mechanisms.

AGI, on the other hand, isn’t controlled by hormones, doesn’t experience hunger,emotions or death, and has no evolutionary history. Does this mean it fundamentally cannot have motivation in the way we understand it? Or could it develop some form of artificial motivation if it gains the ability to improve itself and modify its own code?

Would it simply execute algorithms without any intrinsic drive, or is there a plausible way for “goal-seeking behavior” to emerge?