The crystal ball of war: how AI predicts tactics months in advance

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  Welcome to the world in 10 in an increasingly uncertain world.

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  This is the Times daily podcast dedicated to global security.

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  I'm Toby Gillis, joined today by Alex Dibble.

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  Yesterday's World in 10 took us to the seabeds of Europe

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  and NATO's battle to protect the continent's underwater Internet cables and gas pipelines,

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  which are being sabotaged by Western enemies.

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  Today, the tech theme continues as we dig into the potential future of artificial intelligence in in warfare.

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  The Times Berlin correspondent Oliver Moody also has an Eastern Europe brief, and he has been in Tallinn,

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  capital of Estonia, to see how a new program which claims to predict enemy attacks before they even begin works.

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  Could it be a NATO weapon of the future or even now?

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  Delighted to say.

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  Oliver joins us.

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  So talk us through it.

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  Is this really a war crystal ball?

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  Well, what it is fundamentally, is a battlefield or intelligence management system.

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  These are super common.

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  They've been around for a few decades now.

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  And the idea is basically that the modern battlefield is absolutely teeming with millions of data points.

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  And what we have increasingly is a radical profusion of sensors

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  and other kinds of information scraped together from every imaginable source,

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