Scientists say space aliens could hack our planet 00

"Scientists say space aliens could hack our planet

New paper argues that extraterrestrials might beam 'contaminated' messages our way...

...[T]here are now scientists who fret that space aliens might send messages that worm their way into human society — not to steal our passwords but to bring down our culture...

Astrophysicists Michael Hippke and John Learned argue in a recent paper that our telescopes might pick up hazardous messages sent our way — a virus that shuts down our computers, for example, or something a bit like cosmic blackmail: 'Do this for us, or we’ll make your sun go supernova and destroy Earth.' Or perhaps the cosmic hackers could trick us into building self-replicating nanobots, and then arrange for them to be let loose to chew up our planet or its inhabitants..."

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/should-we-fear-cyberattacks-space-aliens-ncna849941

hmmm:

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I don't think I'll lose sleep over that. If they're that advanced why would they bother?!

 

What the paper essentially says is SETI's AI might use advanced social engineering and there's no perfect prison for it, so complex message should be purged. Does it outweighs the benefit when SETI is indeed friendly and trying to giving us tremendous insights? Nobody knows.
But we know once it actually happens, scientists will choose to interact with the AI, rather than destroy it.