Sabine Hossenfelder quips AI may eat quantum computing's last reason to exist
coherence · x · 2026-10-31
Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder jokes it would be ironic if AI ate quantum computing's final raison d'être — its long-hyped cryptographic applications. The quoted post references Scott Aaronson's essay from four days earlier on the possibility that AI models could soon break widely used cryptographic systems, and on what responsible disclosure looks like when the parties who need to be notified are effectively the entire world.
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