Malware from Space
Since you don’t have enough to worry about, here’s a paper postulating that space aliens could send us malware capable of destroying humanity.
Abstract: A complex message from space may require the use of computers to display, analyze and understand. Such a message cannot be decontaminated with certainty, and technical risks remain which can pose an existential threat. Complex messages would need to be destroyed in the risk averse case.
I think we’re more likely to be enslaved by malicious AIs.
Victor Wagner • March 2, 2018 6:36 AM
Many many years ago I’ve read Sci-fi novel, where evil aliens transmit to the Earth instructions how to build malicious AI. And of cource, people follow these instructions.