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Grounded work on quantum technologies, data, and the physical limits of computation.
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A UK practice for responsible quantum and deep-tech governance.
Qmunitas helps regulated organisations move AI and quantum technologies from laboratory to operation — without breaking assurance, law, or trust.
We treat ethics as the minimum viable governance layer for the quantum era: post-quantum readiness, responsible-quantum frameworks, and the decisions boards have to take before Q-Day. Innovation at the edge, held to account.
Our definition · a fictional dictionary card
Qmunitasnoun/ˈkjuː.mjuː.nɪ.tæs/“In the true Spirit of solidarity.”
- 1.The living fusion of quantum possibility and communitas — shared human solidarity — applied to how we invent, govern, and care for one another through technology.
- 2.A practice of radical innovation, ethical governance, and human development that remains Human First.
Etymology. Blend of quantum (the smallest discrete unit of possibility) and Latin communitas (fellowship, shared spirit).
Qmunitas is the practice of Adrian Maguire, based in Nottingham.
Chapter 1, “Quantum Ethics,” in A Portrait of Quantum Technologies in Finance, edited by Oswaldo Zapata, PhD, The Quantum Finance Boardroom (2026).
Member of the Responsible Quantum Industry Forum (RQIF), convened by the NQCC, with UKQuantum and techUK as industry co-chairs. The RQIF principles.
Previous: Head of Industry Governance, then Head of Data Governance, Experian UK&I Data Office (to October 2024).
Technologies remain in superposition until choices collapse them. Not preparing for Q-Day is a choice.
Intersection
Six domains. One purpose.
Technology
AI, DLT, post-quantum cryptography, and deep-tech systems specified with privacy, security and reliability as foundations.
Economics
How value, risk and institutions carry the cost of getting emerging technology wrong — and the duty to prepare.
Philosophy
What should be optimised, who decides, and which obligations survive contact with a cryptanalytically relevant machine.
Psychology
How boards and people actually take quantum and AI risk — attention, fear, habit, and the difference between a slide and a decision.
Ecology
Place, systems, and flourishing. Technology that does not treat the living world as an externality — including the cost of the digital artefacts we ship.
Not preparing is not neutral.
A cryptanalytically relevant quantum computer is not a metaphor. Institutions that hold long-lived, sensitive data are already making a choice — to prepare, or to defer. Qmunitas exists to help them invent, and to govern what they invent.
“In the true Spirit of solidarity.”