Risk Group Publishes A Book On The Quantum Threat

Risk Group’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Jayshree Pandya Ph. D., pens a new book on The Quantum Threat.

About The Book

Although we fight wars, we still do not have an absolute understanding of the collective forces that govern our universe. Since the emerging technologies from quantumspace can provoke a new arms race and fundamentally change the human ecosystem and the landscape of war, defining and designing our collective future does not come without visualizing the destructive element in human domains. The Quantum Threat emphasizes that everything in the human ecosystem is about balance. Since the balance of power is the scale of peace, the tilting power dynamics due to quantumspace will create enormous imbalances for centuries to come. This initiative is the beginning of presenting security scenarios in which the emerging technology application in future warfare comes to fruition. Each scenario is preceded by a technological understanding that frames the security chain of events with warfare inferences and concludes with the identified implications that inform nations of the answer to the question of the coming collapse. It also helps nations visualize the future and understand the strategic implications of their preparedness around human behavior, the democratization of destruction, and the weaponization of human domains in warfare today and in the future.

Since individuals and institutions, humans, and machines are part of an entangled global ecosystem; the ability to generate and manipulate constructive and destructive in/action is at the foundation of the ongoing digital disorder. There is a need to evaluate how quantum mechanics principles translate to human behavior for our collective security and survival. Suppose an individual human in/action is seen as a single atom; in that case, the question remains whether deterministic laws guide human behavior and whether events happen in a silo.

• Amid the democratization of destruction, as more people get involved in destructive activities, and growing numbers of machines do the same, where will this growing destructive energy take us?
• Will it eventually grow to a level where it alters the very ecosystem we rely on for our collective survival and security?

While our behavior is a way to gauge what we are doing in and to this world, the book begins the hard conversation around entangled human-machine behavior and makes them a life force for our collective security across the human ecosystem. Ultimately, how we handle these integrated issues will determine the fate of humanity.

From The Author

One cannot write about the quantum threat of cyber warfare without disentangling the entangled cyberspace from the prism of the emerging multi-domain war. Although an extensive examination of quantum fundamentals and emerging technologies is outside the scope of this initiative, it is necessary to begin a discussion on the topic of quantumspace, its integration with cyberspace, and implications beyond cyber warfare.

While cyberspace empowers everyone, discovering new worlds like quantumspace will tilt the balance of power for centuries to come. Amid that defining and designing, any nation’s future does not come without visualizing the destructive element in all known/unknown human domains. This initiative is the beginning of presenting security scenarios in which the emerging technology application in future warfare comes to fruition.

Each scenario is preceded by a technological understanding that frames the security chain of events with warfare implications. The global trends constitute the contextual environment for security scenarios.

• The first scenario is built around human behavior in cyberspace, the entangled human and machine behavior, and the democratization of destruction.
• The second scenario addresses the constant clash in cyberspace and evaluates the declining fear of power in the contested domain.
• The third scenario is built around the coming collapse and the weaponization of human domains like quantumspace, cyberspace, aquaspace, geospace, and space.
• The fourth scenario centers around nation preparedness and evaluates strategizing national security and creating collective cyber defense capacity.

Each scenario concludes with the identified implications and is in continuities of each other, creating a larger entangled QCAGS narrative that informs nations of the answer to the question of the coming collapse. It also helps them visualize the future and understand the strategic implications of their preparedness around human behavior, the democratization of destruction, and the weaponization of human domains in warfare today and in the future.

This initiative discusses going beyond the limits of what is possible and exploring the impossible. It also emphasizes that everything in the human ecosystem is about balance. Since the balance of power is the scale of peace, the tilting power dynamics due to quantumspace will create enormous imbalances for centuries to come.

I will continue on this journey in researching the security risks of all human domains. I call you to join my efforts at Risk Group to help protect the future of humanity.

About The Author

Jayshree Pandya (née Bhatt), Ph.D., a leading expert at the intersection of science, technology, and security, is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Risk Group LLC. Guided by societal necessities, her research has contributed to more than 100 publications, including four books. In addition, she serves in the C-Suite of leading emerging technology startups, actively applying her scientific background to designing systems that secure the future of humanity.