Concerned scientists are calling for the boycott of a South Korean university over fears that it’s developing autonomous “Terminator”-style weapons and killer robots.

The group of artificial intelligence researchers, from 30 different countries, said they won’t visit KAIST or host visitors from the university until it vows to stop developing AI weapons without “meaningful human control.”

The researchers also said they won’t cooperate with KAIST’s research programs.

The university, which opened the lab in February with Hanwha Systems, one of the country’s biggest weapons manufacturers, insisted it has “no intention to engage in development of lethal autonomous weapons systems and killer robots.”

KAIST president Sung-Chul Shin said the school was “significantly aware” of the concerns — but reiterated that it has no aspirations of becoming Skynet.

“I reaffirm once again that KAIST will not conduct any research activities counter to human dignity including autonomous weapons lacking meaningful human control,” he said.

University of New South Wales professor Toby Walsh, who organized the boycott, said KAIST’s response was a move in the right direction — but that he had to speak to all the other researchers before calling off the boycott.

“KAIST has made two significant concessions: not to develop autonomous weapons and to ensure meaningful human control,” he said.

Walsh said AI can have many uses in the military that benefit humans, such as clearing minefields.

“But we should not hand over the decision of who lives or dies to a machine. This crosses a clear moral line,” he said. “We should not let robots decide who lives and who dies.”

The university said the new Research Centre for the Convergence of National Defence and Artificial Intelligence will use AI for command and control systems, navigation for large unmanned undersea vehicles, like submarines, smart aircraft training and tracking and recognition of objects.

In a letter released ahead of a UN meeting next Monday in Geneva on autonomous weapons, the researchers warned: “If developed, autonomous weapons will … permit war to be fought faster and at a scale greater than ever before. They will have the potential to be weapons of terror.”

With Post wires