Quantum Computing Will Have Its ‘ChatGPT Moment,’ Says Quantum Expert Rebecca Krauthamer

In a video interview, Krauthamer explains when quantum breakthroughs could go mainstream—and how the midmarket should prepare.

(Rebecca Krauthamer, co-founder and CEO, QuSecure)

If artificial intelligence had a generational cohort, it would be Baby Boomers. Academics and experts in the field trace the birth of AI to the 1950s, when British mathematician Alan Turing famously asked, “Can machines think?”

But it was the development of generative AI like ChatGPT that brought AI into the mainstream. Now, one quantum computing expert says quantum computing will have its own “ChatGPT moment” within the next decade.

Rebecca Krauthamer is the co-founder and CEO of QuSecure, a quantum computing (QC) security company. With a background as a machine learning engineer and as a quantum computing executive, Krauthamer says QC will take off abruptly, going mainstream just like ChatGPT in the very near future.

In a video interview with MES Computing, Krauthamer weighed in on when QC could go mainstream and the aftermath organizations should prepare for.

“In the next 10 years, there's going to be a ChatGPT moment for quantum computing,” she said.

“At scale, quantum computers will be able to break the encryption that we use to keep all of our digital communications secure. So fast forward to today, that was the birth of my company QuSecure. We don't do anything quantum. And that's one of the first things that is important for people to understand. You do not need a quantum computer to fight a quantum computer. You just need algorithms that we know are secure against that kind of quantum attack,” Krauthamer added.

“We work with government, highly regulated organizations, banks, telcos, insurance, oil and gas, and critical infrastructure. And what they are doing is they're going through this migration to quantum secure infrastructures, which is now government mandated. And we lead the charge in facilitating that migration. Big question is, why do they care today?

And that comes down to this idea that everyone knows we're going towards that quantum computer. We're going to have that ChatGPT moment. And because we all know that we're going to get to that point, what bad actors are doing today is what's called ‘Harvest Now Decrypt Later,’ stockpiling data as it travels over networks for later decryption. And so that's what the catalyst is for what we do. We migrate organizations and governments to these quantum-safe infrastructures,” she said.

Watch the full interview with quantum computing expert Rebecca Krauthamer here: