2024/10/17 by Sanjay Vishwakarma, Vishwakarma, Sanjay, Vishal Sharathchandra Bajpe +7
Social Sciences · #Education and Critical Thinking Development #Education and Islamic Studies #FOS: Physical sciences #Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2410.17285
openalex publication_date 2024/10/17 · openalex created_date 2024/11/13 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Quantum computing is an emerging technology whose positive and negative impacts on society are not yet fully known. As government, individuals, institutions, and corporations fund and develop this technology, they must ensure that they anticipate its impacts, prepare for its consequences, and steer its development in such a way that it enables the most good and prevents the most harm. However, individual stakeholders are not equipped to fully anticipate these consequences on their own it requires a diverse community that is well-informed about quantum computing and its impacts. Collaborations and community-building across domains incorporating a variety of viewpoints, especially those from stakeholders most likely to be harmed, are fundamental pillars of developing and deploying quantum computing responsibly. This paper reviews responsible quantum computing proposals and literature, highlights the challenges in implementing these, and presents strategies developed at IBM aimed at building a diverse community of users and stakeholders to support the responsible development of this technology.