It may be simply information, but if you put it into a radio signal and send it into the universe it won’t do anything on its own. Not unless someone receives i

It may be simply information, but if you put it into a radio signal and send it into the universe it won’t do anything on its own. Not unless someone receives it and understands it well enough to execute it. Assuming they’d want to - I guess it’s the interstellar equivalent of downloading and running a program from a spam email.