Yeah, cognitive genomics could help humans to be smarter when we have to deal with an AI. It could have bad consequences too, mind. There are only some dozens of people who have the guts to work directly on the problem of cognitive genomics, so if you got in this field, you wouldn't have to worry that your research was pointless. Rather, you could become a useful point of contact for people thinking about future tech.

Here are a couple of relevant articles. https://intelligence.org/2013/08/31/stephen-hsu-on-cognitive-genomics/ http://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.3421.pdf