Quantum Technologies and the Geostrategic Landscape: Implications for Finance and Central Banks

From enhancing economic forecasting to cracking cryptographic standards, quantum technologies are raising the stakes of today’s financial markets.

A new special report from Tracey Forrest, Paul Samson, S. Yash Kalash and Michael P. A. Murphy offers senior G7 (and beyond) decision makers in finance and central banking a situational analysis of quantum technologies, including priority interventions across three tiers: national, international and public-private collaboration.

Interested in more? Watch “What Could a Post-Quantum World Look Like?” to understand how quantum computing is transforming the future of finance.

Every innovation comes with a choice between sharing to maximize collective gains or locking it down to minimize risk. In this policy brief, Mark Daley presents a realist account of “knowledge statecraft”: the purposeful design of knowledge flows using two different logics — aggregation (alliance filtering, preferential openness) and constraint (export controls, screening).

Canada’s strategy for meeting its defence spending commitment by 2035 will face challenges such as industrial capacity constraints and digital sovereignty gaps. Dan Ciuriak’s most recent paper presents a proposal to defend Canadian sovereignty and territorial integrity.

The Digital Policy Hub at CIGI is a collaborative space for emerging scholars and innovative thinkers from the social, natural and applied sciences. Here are the most recent working papers published by Hub fellows.

Jamie Duncan: “Democratic Accountability in Canada’s Strong Borders Act”

Nathaniel Sukhdeo: “Braiding Digital Sovereignty: Strengthening Canada’s Digital Charter”

Follow the links on the Hub webpage to learn more about the Hub scholars and their work.

Tariffs of material importance could persist beyond the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) review this summer. In this commentary, Dan Ciuriak and Paul Samson unpack Canada’s true trade risk with the United States, and what that means for the potential of a new deal.

Large language models are by nature prone to “hallucinations” and their fluent style can make answers seem more credible than they are. In this commentary, Andrew Dasselaar, explains why the skills needed to use and navigate AI may need to be taught much earlier than we think.