장애인의 인공지능 접근성에 대한 소고

As artificial intelligence is used as an assistant tool or in combination with other auxiliary tools, it has brought a lot of progress in securing information accessibility and activities for the people with disabilitiy es. It is believed that the development of artificial intelligence technologwill bring more innovative changes in the lives of the disabled in the future. However, there has not been much review yet on whether the disabled can access and use various artificial intelligence services and products themselves equally with those without disabilities. In fact, it has been confirmed that the accessibility of the disabled is limited when using various artificial intelligence services and products including ChatGPT and financial chatbot service. This paper attempted to conduct a preemptive review of the extent to which the current legislation guarantees the accessibility of the disabled to artificial intelligence in the current situation where the development of science and technology such as artificial intelligence is accelerating and digitalization is taking place in society and economy. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities guarantees access to artificial intelligence by interpretation, and the EU legislates the protection of right to access through the European Accessibility Act and the Artificial Intelligence Act. In particular, the imposition of accessibility obligations and detailed accessibility standard requirements in the private realm give us implications. Although Korea's related legislation stipulates the technology accessibility of the disabled, it is unclear whether both artificial intelligence technologies and services are covered. In addition, since the people or companies subject to obligations are limited, and especially for private sectors only best efforts obligation is imposed, it is questionable whether artificial intelligence accessibility can be secured. In order to realize Korea's current principled and declarative access rights as a practical right, this paper proposes to expand the scope of accessibility duty to private sectors, and the scope of accessibility of related laws, such as the Digital Inclusion Act, to the artificial intelligence system as a whole, and to establish standard requirements for access to artificial intelligence through partici -pation of stakeholders such as the disabled. It is also required to systematize the right to access the disabled, which is regulated in different laws separately.