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Multiagent Systems: Agent CommunicationApplication Domains: Misinformation & Fake NewsCognitive Modeling & Cognitive Systems: Computational Creativity
The Adaptive Communication Framework (ACF) for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Discovery
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A lack of evidence-based crisis communication frameworks impedes effective response to the cognitive shock and public anxiety triggered by potential artificial-origin interstellar objects (e.g., ‘Oumuamua-like bodies). This study proposes the Adaptive Communication Framework (ACF), the first to integrate rhetorical intelligence across four channels—systemic, pragmatic, affective, and creative—into a staged crisis response protocol. ACF couples Loeb’s significance scale with deepfake detection, synthetic media identification, and algorithmic rumor mitigation. It enables cross-cultural, multi-cognitive-path coordination and establishes the first evidence-tiered, dynamically adjustable communication protocol. Under scientific uncertainty, ACF balances informational transparency with social stability. Validated through iterative scenario testing, it provides a verifiable, scalable theoretical and operational foundation for crisis communication surrounding paradigm-shifting events related to extraterrestrial intelligence. (149 words)
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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time will increase interstellar object detection rates to one every few months, substantially elevating the probability of identifying objects with characteristics suggesting artificial origin. Despite this imminent capability, no evidence-based crisis communication framework exists for managing potential technosignature discoveries. We present the Adaptive Communication Framework (ACF), a theoretically grounded protocol that integrates crisis communication theories with the SPECtrum of Rhetoric Intelligences model to address diverse cognitive, social and emotional processing styles. Through analysis of communication failures during COVID-19, Fukushima, and asteroid 99942 Apophis (2004 MN4), we identify critical gaps in managing scientific uncertainty under public scrutiny. The ACF provides graduated protocols calibrated to the Loeb Scale for Interstellar Object Significance, offering specific messaging strategies across four rhetoric intelligence channels (Systematic, Practical, Emotional, Creative) for each evidential level group. Recognizing that Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems will mediate public understanding, the framework incorporates safeguards against synthetic media manipulation and algorithmic misinformation through pre-positioned content seeding and deepfake detection protocols. Our theoretical framework reveals that successful communication of paradigm-shifting discoveries requires simultaneous activation of multiple cognitive channels, with messages adapted to cultural contexts and uncertainty levels. This framework provides essential theoretical groundwork for ensuring humanity's potentially most transformative discovery unfolds through understanding rather than chaos.
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Develops crisis communication protocol for potential extraterrestrial technosignature discoveries
Addresses scientific uncertainty management under public scrutiny during paradigm-shifting discoveries
Integrates safeguards against AI-mediated misinformation and synthetic media manipulation
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Adaptive Communication Framework integrating crisis theories
Graduated protocols calibrated to Loeb Scale significance
Safeguards against AI misinformation and deepfakes
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