I think KDE's approach is a greater danger. They both come with warnings, but with AUR (depending on tools) allows you to inspect the PKGBUILD. KDE just gives you a warning and no easy way of looking at what you are installing, it is not clear what contains executable code, and its enabled by default.
In general things that are not part of your distro's supported repos (KDE's AUR, language package installers like npm and pypi, Ubuntu PPAs, etc.) seem to present far more of a risk.
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I think KDE's approach is a greater danger. They both come with warnings, but with AUR (depending on tools) allows you to inspect the PKGBUILD. KDE just gives you a warning and no easy way of looking at what you are installing, it is not clear what contains executable code, and its enabled by default.
In general things that are not part of your distro's supported repos (KDE's AUR, language package installers like npm and pypi, Ubuntu PPAs, etc.) seem to present far more of a risk.