A SETI metapolicy: New directions towards comprehensive policies concerning the detection of extraterrestrial intelligence |
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| Institution: | 1. c/o Christopher Schelling, Selectric Artists, 56 Planetarium Station, New York NY 10024, USA;2. Creative Technology Research Group, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds LS6 3QS, UK;1. CEA & CNRS, UMR 3681, Institut de physique théorique, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France;2. Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris-6 & CNRS, UMR 7095, Institut d''astrophysique de Paris, 98 bis bd Arago, 75014 Paris, France |
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| Abstract: | At present we have only one agreed public policy for handling the detection of an extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI), the ‘First SETI Protocol’ of 1989, which guides action in the immediate aftermath of detection, even though SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) constitutes an active search for such a detection. The purpose of this paper is to set out areas in which policies might fruitfully be developed, including reviewing the rationale and investment in SETI, handling ETI artefacts, and approaches to direct contact. ‘Negative’ possibilities will be examined, for example, whether an ETI artefact or data should be purposefully destroyed. |
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