The movie trope where the hero destroys a technology is so funny to me. If the circumstances are right for something like AGI to be invented and you destroy it, it'll just be invented again by another company in the next few years. You can't stop progress, you can only write a bit of legislation to regulate it once it's out in the world.

Invention isn't a random chaotic event, it's the result of its environment. Newton and Leibniz both separately discovered calculus not due to a crazy kooky coincidence, but because in the generations prior, Barrow, Fermat, Pascal, and Descartes paved the way for it.

So there's absolutely no point in erasing the AGI code. The best strategy in this situation is to claim the invention, get rich from it, then use that money to hire lobbyists to push legislation through congress for solid AGI oversight so that the tech causes the least amount of harm and maximum public good.