Just as AI has wrought innovations both profitable and disastrous to life, so can we expect quantum to have similar results, especially given its integration with AI and more classic supercomputers.
Why are politicians so determined to develop this technology? It is not just because it will help make faster, more efficient jets. Encryption and decryption capacity are touted as the most consequential anticipated feature of quantum computing. Take the 6-digit multi-factor authentication code you need to log into your bank, work email, or Instagram. It would take a classical computer 400-500 years to decipher this code. A quantum computer will only need 45 minutes.
Because of this exceptional capacity, researchers project that the first country to achieve “quantum advantage” will put at risk essentially all encrypted data—communications, financial information, health information, and sensitive government information. If the United States government is the first to bring this technology to utility scale, it will be able to decrypt, exploit, and sabotage the essential industry and security data of its imperialist competitors while shielding its own data from counterattack. Whereas if one of our competitors develops it first, the situation would be reversed. That is what Illinois Governor JB Pritzker hints at when he states, “If we lose this battle to our rivals of the world, I’m speaking specifically, for example, China, that will have major repercussions for our national security than none of us want to see.”
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