diff --git a/webapp/config/licenser/known_exceptions.txt b/webapp/config/licenser/known_exceptions.txt
index 338bbf48d..1898a6ed0 100644
--- a/webapp/config/licenser/known_exceptions.txt
+++ b/webapp/config/licenser/known_exceptions.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
 # Known exceptions listed here produce no warnings.
 #
 
+# The AI ingest files are exceptions -- until we decide otherwise.
+utilities/ingest/**/*
+
 # ContentType from Google gdata API, Apache 2.0 license included in file.
 webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/web/ContentType.java