(WSJ) How AI Can Protect Vital Pipelines and Cables Deep in the Ocean

Deep under the sea, pipelines and cables carrying fuel, power and communications are strewn on the ocean floor like a central nervous system for the global economy. 

Huge stretches of these critical connectors lie unprotected in the murky depths—and vulnerable to attacks such as the 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines that carry Russian natural gas to Europe under the Baltic Sea.

Now, in the way that the use of drones has changed the conduct of land wars, artificial intelligence is about to change everything about how the deep sea is navigated and how critical underwater infrastructure is protected in wartime and against threats of terrorism.

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AI is about to change everything about how the deep sea is navigated and how critical underwater infrastructure is protected
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— Martijn Rasser (@MartijnRasser) February 17, 2025