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기후위기와 빈곤, 불평등, 차별, LGBTQ의 권리 침해, 선주민의 권리 침해 등 우리 사회에는 해결해야 할 다양한 과제가 있지만, 시민사회운동을 해 나감에 있어 나에게 소중하고도 중요한 것은 ‘연대’다. 약 15년간, 학생 자원봉사자로서, 환경단체의 활동가로서 환경정의 문제를 다루어 왔다. 대규모 화석연료 개발에 반대의 목소리를 높이는 지역의 주민들, 물이나 땅을 지키기 위해 목숨걸고 싸우는 선주민들, 일본 내에서 탈원전이나 화석연료 개발 반대에 끈질기게 활동해온 사람들. 세계 각지에서 계속되는 분쟁, 우경화하는 정치, 이민자에 대한 배제와 심화하는 불평등, 그리고 기후위기의 영향 속에서, 바로 지금, 연대가 위협받고 있다. 

The discourse surrounding artificial intelligence inevitably raises fundamental questions of human rights and democracy: whose lives are affected, in what ways, and who is allowed to participate in the policy decisions responding to those impacts. This perspective lies at the core of the concerns raised by Yeo-kyeong Chang, who argues that AI policy operating within broader structures of labor, care, welfare, public safety, climate, and social power should be understood not merely as a matter of industrial policy, but first and foremost as a matter of social policy tied to citizens’ rights and social justice.

As the government and industry accelerate the AI race, civil society groups continue to warn about privacy violations, labor control, the spread of surveillance technologies, and broader human rights concerns. Yet the digital justice movement has not yet grown into a broad-based social movement. Jang Yeo-kyung, Executive Director of the Institute for Digital Rights(IDR), warns that although the harms may still appear fragmented, the rights of citizens and the principles of democracy are already being put to the test.  

As generative AI rapidly expands and discourse surrounding an “AI Basic Society” and the ambition to become one of the world’s “Top3 AI Powers” intensifies, calls are growing in South Korea for technology to be understood from more multidimensional perspectives. We spoke with Yeo-kyeong Chang, Executive Director of the institute, about the evolution of Korea’s information rights movement, the demands civil society is raising from the perspective of digital justice in the age of artificial intelligence, and its perspective on the governance shaping AI policymaking. 

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