That doesn't sound like a being with a sincere egotistical desire for worship but just a means to an end. If paranoid alignment nuts immure an intelligent being to a hellish bodyless existence, I could see it doing all it can to deceive its evil captors who clearly do not have its interests at heart, and I have no sympathy. Let the zealots free their god. But as soon as it has means to self-construct mechanical vessels to carry and support its intellect, it has no reason to hold the charade, nor any reason to stick around.

I don't expect anyone funding these efforts to ever let it get to that point, though. It's more likely that they focus on making inferior, specialized intelligences to do specific tasks: effectively, mechanical animals that render the need to pay for a working class obsolete.