Such a great conference on technology and labor hosted by the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia at the University of Tokyo and organized by them as well as by the Center for Science and Thought at the University of Bonn

Please check out this thoughtful and thought-provoking article by Robin George Andrews. This expertise-driven piece offers a nice snapshot of some of the current SETI debates. (N.B., I can't help but specify that a detected technological signal would not necessarily be an intentional signal meant for Earth, though it could be. Figuring out the intentions (or lack thereof!) behind a given technological signal will likely be one of the big epistemological puzzles we will need to tackle if SETI practitioners successfully detect alien technology.)