Quantum computers could break current encryption in seconds, letting adversaries decrypt massive stores of data China already holds. The speaker warns that AI, 5G, IoT, and quantum computing together create dozens of ways to catastrophically damage civilization, and that global tensions over Iran show how quickly we could reach a point of no return.
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encryption hardware and sometimes software. So with quantum computing, if you can break the encryption in like 2 seconds and you get access to everything, that's a real problem. Even this is out there and this is not classified. It is open source now, but China has a whole lot of our information that's encrypted. They cannot get to it, but data storage is extremely cheap. So they're just hanging on to it. Once they are able to break into the encryption, they're going to get access to everything. So it is really crazy. And not just now, the horrible things that could happen. It's really funny. I grew up a Christian. And when I was a kid, sometimes when you go to church, they would scare you, the end of the world and all of that. But it's like, I didn't see a way this world could end. I couldn't see a possibility. But now I can tell you of 100 ways we can end this world right now with all of the technology we have. Actually, a few weeks ago, I was very, very scared. With the conflict in Iran. I was extremely scared. And thank God nothing happened. But just like that, that could have started World War III, right? And it's just amazing how this world is so fragile, even our democracy is so fragile. Like at any point in, at any time, things could just explode and get to a point of no return where life wouldn't be the same as we've come to know it. So it's, we,