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AI and Quantum Computing Threats to Operations and Supply Chain Management

A preprint examining how adversarial AI and quantum-related cryptographic risks could affect operations and supply chains. Drawing on 138 assessed documents and eight stakeholder accounts, it proposes a test-bed architecture and an AI-use-intensity × functional-criticality framework.

Overview

This 2026 preprint examines how adversarial artificial intelligence and quantum-related cryptographic risks could affect operations and supply chains.

Evidence base

  • A structured search and full-text assessment of 138 documents
  • Eight stakeholder accounts used to ground operational concerns
  • Eighteen papers found in operations and supply chain management journals
  • No assessed study documented an AI attack spreading through a physical-goods supply chain

Contribution

The paper distinguishes attacks by their reach and spread, proposes a test-bed architecture for controlled evaluation, and introduces an AI-use-intensity × functional-criticality framework for prioritising operational safeguards.

Authors

Siavash Khajavi · Zixuan Liu · Jan Holmström

Preprint. This work has not been presented as a peer-reviewed journal publication.