Devising the rationale for forced Mind Uploading?

I'm currently working on a story involving a refugee group of people escaping their society, which has made uploading a copy of their consciousness in to a virtual reality system obligatory. However, I'm struggling to devise reasons as to why a society would all want to upload copies of their minds and ditch their bodies entirely. One working theory I have is the AI got out of control and a virus caused it to make mind uploading the entire human population a priority. However, I'm not sure why the AI would want the humans to sacrifice their physical bodies in the process. Any ideas?

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