{"id":189565,"date":"2024-05-16T17:23:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T22:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/why-china-the-u-s-and-big-tech-are-racing-to-harness-quantum-computing-and-ai"},"modified":"2024-05-16T17:23:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T22:23:50","slug":"why-china-the-u-s-and-big-tech-are-racing-to-harness-quantum-computing-and-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/why-china-the-u-s-and-big-tech-are-racing-to-harness-quantum-computing-and-ai","title":{"rendered":"Why China, the U.S., and Big Tech Are Racing to Harness Quantum Computing and AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-china-the-u-s-and-big-tech-are-racing-to-harness-quantum-computing-and-ai2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Micius is considered quantum\u2019s \u201cSputnik\u201d moment, prompting American policymakers to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars into quantum information science via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantum.gov\/\">National Quantum Initiative<\/a>. Bills such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/senate-bill\/1260\">Innovation and Competition Act of 2021<\/a> have provided $1.5 billion for communications research, including quantum technology. The Biden Administration\u2019s proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/ostp\/news-updates\/2023\/03\/13\/fy24-budget-fact-sheet-rd-innovation\/\">2024 budget<\/a> includes $25 billion for \u201cemerging technologies\u201d including AI and quantum. Ultimately, quantum\u2019s awesome computing power will soon render all existing cryptography obsolete, presenting a security migraine for governments and corporations everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum\u2019s potential to turbocharge AI also applies to the simmering technology competition between the world\u2019s superpowers. In 2021, the U.S. Commerce Department added eight Chinese quantum computing organizations to its Entity List, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commerce.gov\/news\/press-releases\/2021\/11\/commerce-lists-entities-involved-support-prc-military-quantum-computing\">claiming<\/a> they \u201csupport the military modernization of the People\u2019s Liberation Army\u201d and adopt American technologies to develop \u201ccounter-stealth and counter-submarine applications, and the ability to break encryption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These restrictions dovetail with a raft of measures targeting China\u2019s AI ambitions, including last year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-67213134\">blocking<\/a> Nvida from selling AI chips to Chinese firms. The question is whether competition between the world\u2019s top two economies stymies overall progress on AI and quantum\u2014or pushes each nation to accelerate these technologies. The answer could have far-reaching consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Micius is considered quantum\u2019s \u201cSputnik\u201d moment, prompting American policymakers to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars into quantum information science via the National Quantum Initiative. Bills such as the Innovation and Competition Act of 2021 have provided $1.5 billion for communications research, including quantum technology. The Biden Administration\u2019s proposed 2024 budget includes $25 billion for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1625,9,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-encryption","category-military","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}