NATO's new AI tool can flag vessels behaving suspiciously amid sea cables sabotage threat

NATO expects the real-time technology will help it to rapidly respond to emerging threats, such as sabotage attempts.

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00:00So, main cell is the result of years of experience and development, scientific development, in

00:27order to pick up anomalies in the maritime domain.

00:33And these algorithms that the center has been developed, oftentimes using AI, have been

00:39able to be used for monitoring ship traffic, especially white shipping, so civilian traffic

00:48on various locations of the globe.

01:04We anticipate to actually bring more data that will fit this toolkit as we go, as we

01:11continue to improve this tool.

01:15And we are quite optimistic that in the not-so-distant future we will be able to have something very

01:22robust that will make our operators able to do a proper job and prevent and deter any

01:31saboteur, anyone who would be willing to damage those infrastructures.

01:46It's possible there are some places in national waters where we have sensors on the seabed,

01:53but otherwise we only have sensors from the surface.

01:56And that means that the information on what happens on the surface is relatively good,

02:02but it doesn't tell you anything what happens on the seabed.

02:04It probably will mean that you'll have a lot of false alarms that could be something happening

02:10in the seabed, but you need to go to the seabed to watch or look.

02:14And that, I think, will have low efficiency for protection of infrastructure on the seabed.