AI Is Accelerating the Quantum Threat to Crypto Encryption, Security Experts Warn!

Security researchers and blockchain builders are sounding a louder alarm: artificial intelligence is compressing the timeline for cryptographically relevant quantum computers, and the crypto industry may not have as long as it thought to adapt. The combination of AI-optimized quantum error correction and 'harvest now, decrypt later' data collection by sophisticated state actors is shifting the threat from theoretical to operational.

Alex Pruden, CEO of quantum-resistant infrastructure firm Project Eleven, put it plainly: 'Between quantum and AI, we're going to go into a world where security — more broadly than just crypto — you simply cannot count on the way you've always done things.' NEAR Protocol co-founder Illia Polosukhin, a former Google AI researcher, added that AI is already feeding quantum progress: 'It might be that the next generation quantum computer will be built with AI…