India may not need to win the AI race, but it cannot miss Q-Day
India may not have to beat OpenAI at its own game. It may, however, have less than three years to prepare for a quantum computer that could make today’s cybersecurity architecture obsolete.
That is the somewhat contrarian proposition emerging from a conversation with Ajai Chowdhry, Chairperson of the India Quantum Mission and co-founder of HCL. For Chowdhry, India’s technology challenge is no longer simply about catching up with the US in artificial intelligence or building ever-larger models. In quantum, the more immediate challenge is to prepare for a deadline that could arrive far sooner than enterprises expect.
“Originally, it was thought to be 2035. But now it’s looking like 2029,” Chowdhry says, referring to Q-Day, the point at which a sufficiently powerful quantum computer could potentially break today’s widely used cryptographic systems.
The implication is uncomfortable. Organisations cannot wait for such a machine to appear before beginning their migration to...
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