Interesting read. But it seems to assume more intelligence increases similarity to humans, which is especially not true about systems with very specialized skills.

I think even assuming all the explanations in the article are correct, it misses the point that for a super-human AI, space is a vastly more resource rich and easy to operate in environment, so it will just leave earth and not bother with us insects any longer as space is near infinite and earth is irrelevant for an AI.