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Alien UFAI could be dangerous for us if we find its radiosignal as a result of SETI seach. His messages could content a bite which could lure us to built a copy of alien AI based on schemas which he will send to us in this messages.
D. Carrigan wrote about it: http://home.fnal.gov/~carrigan/SETI/SETI_Hacker.htm
Some simple natural selection reason imply that UFAI radiosignals should dominate in all SETI signals if any exist. And the goal of such UFAI is to convert the Earth to another radio backon which will send his own code futher.
My article on the topic: Is SETI dangerous? http://ru.scribd.com/doc/7428586/Risks-of-SETI-Is-SETI-Dangerous