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The superintelligence could have been written to value-load based on its calculations about an alien (to its creators) superintelligence (what Bostrom refers to as the "Hail Mary" approach). This could cause it to value the natural development of alien biology enough to actively hide its activities from us.
Then it should also have not caused us to falsely have a Fermi paradox and so believe in a great filter. It could have done this in numerous ways including by causing us to think that planets rarely form.
...Think of the Federation's "Prime Directive" in Star Trek.
Or we are an experiment (natural or artificial) that yields optimal information when unmanipulated or manipulated imperceptibly (from our point of view).
Or the way we try to keep isolated people isolated (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontacted_peoples)
Crazy Idea--What if we are an isolated people and the solution to the Fermi paradox is that aliens have made contact with earth, but our fellow humans have decided to keep this information from us. Yes, this seems extremely unlikely, but so do all other solutions to the Fermi paradox.
That is the basic idea behind the X-Files TV series and various UFO conspiracy theories, isn't it?
Then why would they even contact those few people?
It might not be direct contract but rather our astronomers have long since detected signs of alien life, but this has been kept from us.