Professor Avi Loeb has claimed that our first encounter with extraterrestrial life may not be as glamorous as depicted in E.T. or War of the Worlds, with the likelihood of facing a more terrifying situation - a technological device guided by AI, posing a potential threat to all earthlings. Possibilities also lie in the existence of alien probes aiming to investigate Earth. However, the consequences of these 'blind dates' of interstellar proportions remain uncertain. Would they mean the end of the human race? Or, bringing about a unification of Earth's nations in their quest for survival? The future of humanity could be irrevocably changed by such a meeting that might not just be a crisis, but a wake-up call realizing that humanity isn't at the top of the food chain, cosmologically speaking.