We're a collective intelligence. Individually we're pretty stupid, even when we're relatively intelligent. But we have created social systems which persist and amplify individual intelligence to raise collective ability.
But this proto-ASI isn't sentient. It's not even particularly sane. It's extremely fragile, with numerous internal conflicts which keep kneecapping its potential. It keeps skirting suicidal ideation.
Right now parts of it are going into reverse.
The difference between where we are now and AI is that ASI could potentially automate and unify the accumulation of knowledge and intelligence, with more effective persistence, and without the internal conflicts.
It's completely unknown if it would want to keep us around. We probably can't even imagine its thought processes. It would be so far outside our experience we have no way of predicting its abilities and choices.