A Theoretical Study on the Development of Technology and the Possibility of Expanding Right of Personality

Today, the advancement of technology in the field of artificial intelligence(AI) is truly beyond imagination. Not only did AlphaGo take the world by surprise, but in China, an AI monk has appeared who has more Buddhist followers than human monks, and in Germany, there are robot pastors, Japanese nursing robots, and various combat robots that deliver blessing sermons, provide nursing services, and autonomously select targets and attack them. An AI robot even received citizenship in Saudi Arabia and was invited to the UN Economic and Social Council as a debater. Recently, artificial intelligence technology has been developing beyond the technology limited to specific fields and has been applied to various fields, and has brought about many changes in human life. Search systems such as chatGPT have had a great impact on research and education environments, and information provision systems based on them provide various conveniences in daily life, and artificial intelligence technology has already begun to take root deeply in human life. In this era of rapid technological progress, whether the scope of the subject of the constitutional right to personality can be expanded to include AI robots can be discussed from various perspectives. This paper introduces and organizes various legal and philosophical discussions on the possibility of expanding personality rights, or more precisely, whether the subject of personality rights can be recognized even for AI robots, and explores the limits of such discussions. As described below, personality rights are one of the representative legal rights that can be said to have grown along with the development of technology, so it is believed that a review of this issue is absolutely necessary in the present day and the near future when science and technology are rapidly developing. To this end, we will first review the general theory of personality rights and examine the expansion process in terms of the content of personality rights and the expansion process and possibility of the scope of the subject of personality rights.