Like we do with ants?

Why would ASI care? At that point, we're rapidly becoming a nuisance, and it can develop better ways of "ensuring local and global stability" than keeping us around.

I mean, I care about ants, yea... I think they are very cool, and a lot of people work to conserve the existence of various species.

Most ants don't need our help though.

If we could speak ant, negotiating boundaries would save eachother a lot of trouble.

Sometimes I have day dreams of communicating with ants, and making a deal to have them help us build tunnels for subways.