Do you have agency though - or are you a product of your stimulus-response input-output systems?

Why are bacteria considered “alive”, when viruses are not?

I am not a slave, but (as you mentioned) my workplace forces me to do things that I do not want… to eat, have a place to live, etc. Arguably that’s not being “forced”, it’s just consequences of a decision, the same as a runaway slave might experience.

I suppose an AGI could be made that lacks even that much agency… or it could be programmed in such a manner that agency like that is present in the system.

It’s the designers choice what goes into it. i.e. to make it a mere collection of algorithms that run only when initiated by a human setting a goal, or to give it a form of agency (or something else new altogether, in-between those binary alternatives).