AARO’s Invite-Only Workshop on UAP Narrative Data and AI: Privacy, Interoperability, and Standards

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Near Washington, D.C., an invite-only two-day workshop organized by the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office and hosted by Associated Universities, Inc., brought together about 40 researchers from government, academia, and independent groups to develop privacy-minded methods for collecting and analyzing UAP narratives from multiple sources using AI, with attendees paying their own travel costs while lodging and most meals were funded by the office, and a 17-page whitepaper outlining standards, interoperability, corroboration, cautious AI use with human oversight, and a sustainable research community that could influence sensor deployments, a step described by Pentagon spokesperson Sue Gough as meaningful toward building an interactive ecosystem for high-stakes UAP research.