A better version of that argument might be: "if ants evolved to have higher than human intellect and technology - would they be interested in studying us humans?"
I think the answer is far less clear in that scenario.
I think the answer is far less clear in that scenario.
A superintelligent ant colony with an "of ant" intellect is going to be so alien to our kind of intellect that the goals are just impossible to compare. Probably same for aliens unless there are many humanoid ones for some reason.