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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. Armed with a map of the objects in the ocean and high-resolution data, autonomous systems will identify the things that don’t belong, says Jann Wendt, chief executive of German startup North.io, which is working to create systems to protect undersea technology. AI is central to NATO’s effort, says Lt. Col. Rene Heise, a staff officer in this group, known as the Critical Undersea Infrastructure Coordination Cell. The U.S. Navy and the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit—created in 2015 to accelerate the military’s adoption of cutting-edge technology that is commercially available—in January purchased an autonomous underwater vehicle called Hugin from the Norwegian manufacturer Kongsberg Discovery. “We’re going to require things like charging stations, spots where we can offload data, and we’ve only mapped around 10% of the ocean at this point."

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