If you think that's depressing, I have considered that humanity may serve the same purpose for hyper-intelligent AI as gut bacteria do for humans. We will need

If you think that's depressing, I have considered that humanity may serve the same purpose for hyper-intelligent AI as gut bacteria do for humans. We will need resources and produce waste the AI is compelled to provide and deal with, respectively. We will send signals to the AI indicating how content we are, and where we are not it will experience a need to placate us. If we are lucky, the AI may drag us along with it into the stars, we providing needs and wants, it searching out how to meet them. Being so far beneath it, we will likely remain free to self-manage as we desire, so long as we do not threaten the greater structure of the AI around us.