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I don't think that most (perhaps not all) people who say such things (QC is necessary for AI) understand both what building blocks might be needed for AI and what quantum computers actually can and can't do better or worse than classical computers. Sounds like people throwing two awesome (but so far impractical) concepts they've heard about together randomly, hoping for an even more awesome statement. Like "for colonizing Mars it's necessary that we build room-temperature superconductors first".
Please excuse the ridicule, but I don't see how large quantum computers are necessary for AI. They certainly are helpful, but then, room-temperature superconductors also are...
It's the quantum syllogism:
(1. need not apply e.g. if you are Roger Penrose, but it's still logically fallacious.)
Penrose would claim not to understand how 'collapse' occurs.
When I was younger, I picked up 'The Emperor's New Mind' in a used bookstore for about a dollar, because I was interested in AI, and it looked like an exciting, iconoclastic take on the idea. I was gravely disappointing when it took a sharp right turn into nonsense right out of the starting gate.