I think, for mankind, the best solution would be to pursue several paths simultaneously:

Interface/interweave humans and machines, both physically and mentally.

colonize mars / off-planet outposts of some kind. (the most paranoid ones can cut themselves off entirely from the "cloud" of the others, thus preserving them temporarily if everything goes down the drain)

Solve our own problems as best we can. Because I honestly doubt a new species will like us very much if we immediately ask them to solve all our wars, unequal resource distribution,etc...

Those are good starting points, especially one and two!

Electricity is abundant, we just decided to harvest it in inefficient ways, each day the sun radiates the earth with 40,000 times more energy than we use in a year. The machines will be OK for energy I reckon :-).

Also, should we be thinking of a better name than Artificial intelligence ?
We need a scientific naming scheme for Electronics-based life !

Yes we should, at least Artificially Sentient, although I prefer non-organic human :-)

Cg