I've been playing and noticed that the ai has been very, very agro founding colonies within my own area of influence, they have literally gone and settled every habitable planet as a result the planet almost instantly flips to me and I've gone from the 19 I founded my self to over 80 just from whats flipped to me. Other then factions that have the malevolent immune to flipping the ai is just wasting its resources and directly feeding me, the ai probably should not be founding colonies that are in another players influence.