They say they're coming in good faith, and give evidence of that, and ask us to keep open minds. And your immediate assumption is that "the chance of a positive outcome is close to zero", and that everyone who would welcome the aliens is a traitor.

I reject your scenario, and I urge you to reconsider the mindset that led you to write it.

bruh some of us are working on ai alignement for more than a decade and you're simplifying the debate to a dichotomy of cowards vs traitors? you must be joking