SETI Updates Post-Detection Protocol with IAA Oversight and UN Review for METI

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SETI is updating its post-detection protocol through the International Academy of Astronautics to reflect modern governance and social media dynamics, replacing older declarations with a best-practices framework that requires UN discussion before any direct messaging or METI, while expanding verification, dual-location data storage, broader software access, and ITU actions to protect bandwidth if a signal is confirmed, acknowledging a more complex global landscape and ongoing revisions with input from Seth Shostak and Fraser.

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The Search For Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is evolving. We’ve moved on from the limited thinking of monitoring radio waves to checking for interstellar pushing lasers or even budding Dyson swarms around stars. To match our increased understanding of the ways we might find intelligence elsewhere in the galaxy, the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) is working through an update to its protocols for what researchers should do after a confirmed detection of intelligence outside of Earth. Their new suggestions are available in a pre-print paper on arXiv, but were also voted on at the 2025 International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Sydney, with potential full adoption early next year.