Why Quantum Computing Is More Dangerous Than Artificial Intelligence

Why Quantum Computing Is Even More Dangerous Than Artificial Intelligence

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The world already failed to regulate AI. Let’s not repeat that epic mistake.

Today’s artificial intelligence is as self-aware as a paper clip such as a Google engineer’s bizarre claim that his company’s AI system had “come to life”

And Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s tweet predicting that computers will have human intelligence by 2029. The technology still fails at simple everyday tasks.

The sensationalism surrounding AI is not surprising, considering that Musk himself had warned that the technology could become humanity’s “biggest existential threat”

Precisely because today’s AI is little more than a brute, unintelligent system for automating decisions using algorithms.

The world’s failure to rein in the demon of AI—or rather, the crude technologies masquerading as such—should serve to be a profound warning.

There is an even more powerful emerging technology with the potential to wreak havoc, especially if it is combined with AI: Quantum computing

We urgently need to understand this technology’s potential impact, regulate it, and prevent it from getting into the wrong hands.

It may potentially be able to try out combinations so rapidly that they could crack encryptions by brute force almost instantaneously.

To be clear, quantum computing is still in an embryonic stage—though where, exactly, we can only guess. Because of the technology’s immense potential power and revolutionary applications