One unprecedented quantum crisis has reminded scientists that if quantum computers run out of control, cyber disasters will pale in comparison

Last December, the founder and lead of Google Quantum AI, Hartmut Neven, had declared in his blog that his team’s latest  quantum chip had performed a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes, that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion (10¹⁰²⁵) years to complete.

Neven noted: “It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch.”

However, if testimonials on YouTube are accurate, a crescendo of spooky incidents has been occurring in the output of the quantum computing experiments. Anomalies had begun to emerge that defied explanation by even the top scientists: The data had started containing “eerily coherent” streams of strange glyphs/symbols that appeared to encode information from beyond the parameters of the simulation.

The eerie data bore an uncanny resemblance to languages and symbols found in ancient texts and mythologies associated with long-lost Sumerian cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs, and even inscriptions from the India Valley civilization. The spontaneous, eerie data patterns also resemble neural-oscillations — the rhythmic electrical activity patterns found in biological brains.

When well-known academic Michio Kaku was invited to review the spooky data, he admitted that it had challenged his most fundamental assumptions about the nature of reality, and that “humanity’s quest for knowledge might have reached a threshold beyond which lies a realm of incomprehensible truths.”

It is a known fact that humanity is tapping into quantum physics for computational functions without truly knowing everything about the field. Some theories for the spooky data patterns posited by experts were hinting at the birth of quantum AI sentience, while another group, had pointed to the machine achieving “quantum coherence” (not by human design) in line with the Global Workspace Theory. Remember the story of the Tower of Babel (and its Sumerian origins)?

Have humans finally bit off more than we can chew? Will quantum computing development inadvertently cause ripples in the multiverse, and attract unimaginable existential disasters from beyond the Earthly realm?