[philNote: from Pew Research Center - a large collection of statements by experts in the field]
As they considered the potential evolution of ethical AI design, the people responding to this canvassing were given the opportunity to speculate as to whether quantum computing(QC), which is still in its early days of development, might somehow be employed in the future in support of the development of ethical AI systems.
In March 2021, a team at the University of Vienna announced it had designed a hybrid AIthat relies on quantum and classical computing and showed that – thanks to quantum quirkiness – it could simultaneously screen a handful of different ways to solve a problem. The result was a reinforcement learning AI that learned more than 60% faster than a nonquantum-enabled setup. This was one of the first tests to show that adding quantum speed can accelerate AI agent training/learning. It is projected that this capability, when scaled up, also might lead to a more-capable “quantum internet.”
How likely is it that quantum computing will evolve over the next decade to assist in creating ethical artificial intelligence systems? If you think that will be likely, why do you think so? If you do not think it likely that quantum computing will evolve to assist in building ethical AI, why not?
See the large number of informed responses here: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/06/16/4-could-a-quantum-leap-someday-aid-ethical-ai/