법조 분야 인공지능 기술의 도입을 위한 고려 사항–상표 유사도 평가의 경우를 사례로

In a variety of fields of our society, artificial intelligence has been introduced and drawn positive outcomes, and the opinion that the field of legal practice should not be an exception has been emerging. For the artificial intelligence to perform at its best, it is required that design, development, and operation of the system must reflect the environment, purpose, and condition of the application. Thus, in-depth consideration to determine whether a certain artificial intelligence technology coincides with the characteristics of the field of legal practice and judicial system is necessary to introduce such artificial intelligence technology into the field of legal practice. It is certain for artificial intelligence technology that high efficiency is its reason for being, and especially in the field of legal practice in which psychological resistance is yet high against it, demonstration of higher efficiency should be one of the factors to be considered for the introduction of the technology. In addition, keeping in mind the characteristics of the legal field, technical factors including stability of operation and reliability of decision making and legal factors such as definiteness (non-vagueness) and propriety are required to be considered. Among the factors, the reliability factor is unlikely verified intuitively due to its discriminating characters compared to the others; objectivity of the results and the process to achieve the outcomes is to be considered as a valuation basis because the fundamental of artificial intelligence rooted on the result of calculations. In the case of similarity evaluation of trademark infringement, the objectivity of the outcomes produced by general, commonly known artificial intelligence technology was considered not to reach to the level of public standard; thus, it was analyzed that it lacks reliability. However, at the same time, the chance for technical supplementation were also observed. It is expected that this kind of discussion will cultivate social competences required to select and introduce the best performing artificial intelligence in the field of future legal practice.