AI-Enhanced SETI: From Faster Signal Detection to Interpreting Extraterrestrial Meaning

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AI and astronomy could change how we contact aliens by letting machines communicate and speeding up discovery, with Seth Shostak noting aliens could be machines, Breakthrough Listen with NVIDIA showing real-time AI data processing, Andrew Siemion saying AI can find unexpected signals and cut false positives, and Douglas Vakoch stressing that humans must interpret meaning while real targets like Tau Ceti and 40 Eridani A shape the physics limits on long missions.