We'd want to do what we should be doing anyway--put a few trillion dollars, and all the scientific prestige we can muster, into solving ASI alignment; and then

We'd want to do what we should be doing anyway--put a few trillion dollars, and all the scientific prestige we can muster, into solving ASI alignment; and then into building ASI. The local aliens that we're just beginning to get to know could put us in a much better negotiating position when we meet the aliens from other places.