Title: The careless use of language in quantum information,
Abstract: An imperative aspect of modern science is that scientific institutions act
for the benefit of a common scientific enterprise, rather than for the personal
gain of individuals within them. This implies that science should not
perpetuate existing or historical unequal social orders. Some scientific
terminology, though, gives a very different impression. I will give two
examples of terminology invented recently for the field of quantum information
which use language associated with subordination, slavery, and racial
segregation: 'ancilla qubit' and 'quantum supremacy'.