Business leaders are the only viable civilizational actor

Political actors are compromised by electoral timescales. Scientific institutions are compromised by consensus funding. Religious institutions are compromised by doctrinal commitments. None can move with the speed, discretion, or capital allocation that First Open Contact requires.

Senior business leaders operating outside public market constraints have delivered civilizational infrastructure before — telecommunications, energy grids, the internet. Contact policy is the next infrastructure problem. It happens to be the largest one in human history.