Humanity has spent decades asking whether extraterrestrial intelligence exists.

Discussions surrounding extraterrestrial intelligence have traditionally focused on a single question: Do aliens exist?

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Far less attention has been given to an equally important question: What happens next?

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How would governments respond? How would religions adapt? How would global institutions communicate with the public? How would individuals process a discovery that fundamentally alters humanity's understanding of itself?

Exosociology explores these questions by examining the social, cultural, ethical and psychological implications of contact with non-human intelligence.

The First Contact Project examines humanity's readiness for that possibility through research, analysis and informed speculation.​​

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Could humanity recognise an alien intelligence?

Would religions survive first contact unchanged?

Who speaks for Earth?

Would governments tell the public everything they know?

Could human rights apply to a non-human species?

How would society react in the first 24 hours?