NATO developing AI-powered ‘hot zone’ along Russia border – official

NATO is developing plans to establish an extensive automated “deterrence line” along its entire eastern border, packed with AI-coordinated weapons systems designed to target “enemy forces,” a senior bloc general has announced.

The automated “hot zone” would stretch several thousand kilometers from the Arctic to the Black Sea along the borders of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova, NATO Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, General Thomas Lowin, explained in an interview with German newspaper Welt am Sonntag.

He stated that the so-called “Eastern Flank Deterrence Line” would be filled with sensors and “effectors” and have an AI system linking armed drones, sensor-equipped quadrupedal robots, semi-autonomous combat vehicles, unmanned robotic ground systems, and automated air and missile defenses, designed to “break the enemy’s advance.”