Leading AI experts speak out about Korean university's new 'killer robots' WRAL TechWire

Artificial intelligence experts have announced they will boycott a South Korean research university that is looking into how to use AI for weapons, CNN and other media outlets are reporting. The university, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, started a research center that will look to create "AI-based" missiles, submarines and quadcopters by the end of this year. More than 50 leading experts penned an open letter to the university that denounced the killer technology research, Fortune reported. "At a time when the United Nations is discussing how to contain the threat posed to international security by autonomous weapons, it is regrettable that a prestigious institution like KAIST looks to accelerate the arms race to develop such weapons," the experts wrote in the letter. "We therefore publicly declare that we will boycott all collaborations with any part of KAIST until such time as the president of KAIST provides assurances, which we have sought but not received, that the center will not develop autonomous weapons lacking meaningful human control."