Quantum+AI researcher asks: are we optimizing for the right goals?
AryHHAry · x · 2026-10-21
AryHHAry republishes a personal essay from the intersection of quantum computing and AI, reflecting on optimization algorithms, objective functions, and ethics. The core question: we build ever-stronger systems optimizing ever-more-specific goals with great efficiency — but are those the right goals, and are they the most important problems?
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