Abstract — Attendees at the First Penn State SETI Symposium collaborated to develop guideposts for monitoring for and communicating with extraterrestrial life.
Intelligence & Language
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Whale-SETI: Groundbreaking Encounter With Humpback Whales Reveals Potential For Nonhuman Intelligence communication
A team of scientists from the SETI Institute, University of California Davis and the Alaska Whale Foundation, had a close encounter with a non-human (aquatic) intelligence.
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Whale Speech: Approaching An Unknown Communication System By Latent Space Exploration And Causal Inference
This paper proposes a methodology for discovering meaningful properties in data by exploring the latent space of unsupervised deep generative models. We combine manipulation of individual latent variables to extreme […]
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Message In A Bottle – An Update To The Golden Record: 1. Objectives And Key Content Of The Message
In the first part of this series, we delve into the foundational aspects of “Message in a Bottle (MIAB)” (henceforth referred to as MIAB). This study builds upon the legacy […]
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The Number Of Possible CETIs Within Our Galaxy And The Communication Probability Among These CETIs
As the only known intelligent civilization, human beings are always curious about the existence of other communicating extraterrestrial intelligent civilizations (CETIs).
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Interstellar Diplomacy
The Defense Department and NASA are investigating the possibility that aliens are currently surveilling Earth.
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A Bayesian Analysis of Technological Intelligence In Land And Oceans
Current research indicates that (sub)surface ocean worlds essentially devoid of subaerial landmasses (e.g., continents) are common in the Milky Way, and that these worlds could host habitable conditions, thence raising […]
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First Contact: Global Team Simulates Message From Extraterrestrial Intelligence To Earth
What would happen if we received a message from an extraterrestrial civilization?
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Could AI be the Great Filter? What Astrobiology can Teach the Intelligence Community about Anthropogenic Risks
Where is everybody? This phrase distills the foreboding of what has come to be known as the Fermi Paradox – the disquieting idea that, if extraterrestrial life is probable in […]
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Can ET Detect Us?
What would the Earth look like to an alien civilization located light years away?