US insurance giant CEO to business leaders: Look beyond your AI obsession

At a time when tech leaders worldwide continue working to extract tangible value from artificial intelligence (AI), there is a group of forward-looking executives who are already setting their sights on the next frontier of technological disruption: quantum computing. Thomas J. Wilson, CEO and president of Allstate insurance powerhouse, is sounding an alarm for corporate peers: look past your current AI focus to start understanding and funding quantum research today.“Quantum will solve problems that traditional compute takes too long to do. And that AI can’t really do,” Wilson said, as per a report by The Wall Street Journal. He pointed out that quantum systems will unlock solutions to complex challenges that conventional computers take too long to resolve and that standard AI cannot properly handle.