Which is also why Google is trying to achieve quantum supremacy. The next step after that is breaking cryptography wholesale. Once that happens, good luck keeping control of anything that interfaces with the the internet including your bank accounts. Even if you’ve never used an online banking service.
Them keeping it quiet is the real danger because, legally, they under no obligation to disclose when it happens. As much as I hate throwing taxpayer money at things, it would makes sense to me to have some military funding going toward this type of thing. It’s not just a personal but also national security issue. Nothing currently is stopping Alphabet from selling the technology to China.
That’s of course assuming it isn’t being largely developed by H1B contractors whose ultimate plan is to steal the tech for their own governments, but it’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that such a thing IS happening at this point.
Which is also why Google is trying to achieve quantum supremacy. The next step after that is breaking cryptography wholesale. Once that happens, good luck keeping control of anything that interfaces with the the internet including your bank accounts. Even if you’ve never used an online banking service.
Them keeping it quiet is the real danger because, legally, they under no obligation to disclose when it happens. As much as I hate throwing taxpayer money at things, it would makes sense to me to have some military funding going toward this type of thing. It’s not just a personal but also national security issue. Nothing currently is stopping Alphabet from selling the technology to China.
That’s of course assuming it isn’t being largely developed by H1B contractors whose ultimate plan is to steal the tech for their own governments, but it’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that such a thing IS happening at this point.