Stephen Hawking and Alens

I remember Stephen Hawking saying not to peruse finding aliens for if they know us the deprived aliens will steel all our resources and in the end we will be left with nothing. For such is the ferocity of life in the universe. No mercy just the struggle to stay put on. And today I read of his ambitious multimillion dollar program along with a Russian tycoon to use all resources with fully loaded computer capacity using high resolution telescopes to search for aliens a program much bigger than SETI (Search for extra terrestrial life). The new program will focus on a million neighbour stars, the plane of the Milky Way galaxy and a hundred other nearby galaxies and more importantly to synthesise and analyse radio waves coming from space.
This is an amazing program for the next ten years. And if we can find the most touted bear sized aliens how our life would change! No radio, no television no computer would have changed as much as finding an alien in space not to mention the effect on the lives of aliens.