Sure, but unless they're willing to communicate their benevolent intent to us, alien science should be viewed as hostile. What is the point of a machine science

Sure, but unless they're willing to communicate their benevolent intent to us, alien science should be viewed as hostile. What is the point of a machine science that is not amenable to human examination? How could we be sure that the machine is acting in concert with human interests? A purely machine science is anathema; if the machine does science, it must participate in the community of human scientists to validate its conclusions, or else its 'knowledge', however encoded, is as obscure and terrifying as the path of an impending asteroid.