IAA Updates Public-Disclosure Guidelines for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Emphasizing Verification, Consensus, and Safeguards

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The International Academy of Astronautics updated its nonbinding guidelines for publicly disclosing a potential extraterrestrial intelligence discovery to emphasize rigorous verification, transparency, and safeguards against misinformation, require reporting to the scientific community, the United Nations, and the public only after broad consensus via a post‑detection committee that weighs long‑term societal impacts and is built on input from more than 350 researchers worldwide, recognize a wider range of technosignatures beyond radio, and advise waiting for credible consensus rather than reacting to the first anomaly, a stance highlighted by Michael Garrett.