This is a good summary of where we are now. The concern is where we’re going as quantum computing exponentially increases the capacity of AI toward the Singularity (a hypothetical point in the future where AI surpasses human intelligence, leading to rapid, uncontrollable technological and societal changes, potentially beyond human comprehension or control).
With the recent development between Microsoft and Harvard scientists of the topological qubit which:
can power a quantum computer more reliably than previously developed quantum qubits and which they believe will speed development of ultrafast quantum computers capable of tackling the toughest computing challenges, far beyond the capability of even supercomputers built through conventional means.
we’re getting closer and closer to this potential but, more important to national security, is this unchecked power moving us closer to Q-day, the day quantum computers finally crack encryption, becoming a universal picklock capable of taking down our entire system of security for banking, bitcoin wallets, electrical grids, privacy data, top-secret military information, and all the rest. When this happens, AI replacing white-collar jobs will be the least of our worries.
When Mosca and his colleagues surveyed cybersecurity experts last year, the forecast was sobering: a one-in-three chance that Q-Day happens before 2035. And the chances it has already happened in secret? Some people I spoke to estimated 15 percent