This is the logical way. There is an exo planet that JWST recently discovered with bio signatures, it will take some more months to get the data checked out more thoroughly etc, but K2-18b is 124 light years away from us and the signature detected is only known to be generated here on earth via biological life and has not been detected anywhere else.
If the coming months show that the data is accurate then this changes almost everything because we will then know that we are not alone, that some form of life exists on another planet 124 light years away. That news alone will give big budget awards to various projects to look even deeper into the situation and maybe even find signs of technological life that may exist.
With all the news coming out as of late, I feel confident that in our lifetime (sooner rather than later even), we will have confirmed life out there in some form, and then a technosignature of some kind, but it is unlikely to be biological, but instead machine based life created by is bio-ancestors set on a mission to explore and catalogue what it finds along the way, purely because the sheer size of even a small galaxy will take the span of the existence of an average civilisation to travel across at the bare minimum and that's only if they travel at the speed of light. AI/Machine life is the direction we are heading into right now so again logically this all makes sense.