I think this is a fascinating area, and the problems you’ve highlighted seem like important problems. I find it hard to believe it’s a cause area EAs should focus on though.
As you explain, the clearest threat is the impact on cryptography, but it doesn’t seem likely to me that that problem is neglected. There are huge incentives for governments and companies to solve that problem, and I think they are probably already doing lots of work on it..?
Thanks! I partly agree on the cryptography part, I definitely don’t think that it would be effective to fund efforts towards transitioning to quantum-safe cryptography. Nonetheless, I do believe that working on the quantum-safe transition could be a good career option for someone who already has expertise in the field (feel free to push back on this).
I think in the future, it could be promising to work on capacity building and helping places that lack behind catch up to new cryptography standards. Especially, if real negative consequences start to materialize (which maybe won’t primarily be quantum-enabled hacks but rather compatibility challenges).
Finally, just to clarify, I think that cryptography is the most clear problem, but probably not the most important one from an EA perspective.
I think this is a fascinating area, and the problems you’ve highlighted seem like important problems. I find it hard to believe it’s a cause area EAs should focus on though.
As you explain, the clearest threat is the impact on cryptography, but it doesn’t seem likely to me that that problem is neglected. There are huge incentives for governments and companies to solve that problem, and I think they are probably already doing lots of work on it..?
Thanks! I partly agree on the cryptography part, I definitely don’t think that it would be effective to fund efforts towards transitioning to quantum-safe cryptography. Nonetheless, I do believe that working on the quantum-safe transition could be a good career option for someone who already has expertise in the field (feel free to push back on this).
I think in the future, it could be promising to work on capacity building and helping places that lack behind catch up to new cryptography standards. Especially, if real negative consequences start to materialize (which maybe won’t primarily be quantum-enabled hacks but rather compatibility challenges).
Finally, just to clarify, I think that cryptography is the most clear problem, but probably not the most important one from an EA perspective.