Scientists at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology are now turning their attention to AI weapons THIERRY FALISE/GETTY IMAGESIn the future, autonomous swarms of killer robots will lay waste to the battlefield, relentlessly and remorselessly hunting the enemy until it is dead. In the face of such cold metallic death, human resistance is surely futile. It seems there is one counterattack that can be deployed to stop the Terminator after all: a strongly worded open letter by academics. A team of artificial intelligence experts from across the world has called for a boycott of a South Korean university that was understood to be researching autonomous military robots. The Korea Times reported that the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Kaist) would be collaborating with a defence contractor to design AI weapons, including unmanned submarines and armed quadcopters.

Source: The Times April 05, 2018 16:07 UTC