By participating in an expert panel moderated by the director of newspaper Listín Diario, Miguel Franjul, the official considered that he concept of AI should not be assumed simply as a technological tool, but as a fundamental component for the development of the democratic models of the 21st century, where transparency and Accountability is central to public debate.

Syra Taveras Pineda, executive director of the Center Research for Women’s Action (CIPAF), said that AI has already changed the world and will continue to change it at a higher speed. “We have to focus not only on their use, but on the development of those technologies that have led us to the inability to deepen, because they have been designed for extractivism and profit, and not for the common good,” he said. Gómez Mazara and Taveras Pineda argued that in the face of the use of AI appeal to ethical use and Education is not enough, laws are necessary.

During his speech at the panel, Santiago Gallur, coordinator of the doctoral programs in Social Sciences and Communication of INTEC, reflected on the role of education and thinking critical in digital environments, he advocated educating on the ethical use of AI, teaches what it is and what it is not for.

Meanwhile, Claudia Felipe Torres, coordinator of the Program of Social and Human Sciences of the UNESCO Regional Office in Cuba, offered an international perspective on ethics, Human rights and emerging regulatory frameworks. Shee said the major information concentration handled by AI comes from states United, about 75%, while China represents 15%, which can generate bias in the processing of information.

During the activity, Judge Amaury Reyes Torres, of the Constitutional Court, issued the keynote conference “The impact of Artificial Intelligence in Democracy, in which analyzed AI from the perspective of the rule of law and stressed the need for preserving constitutional principles.

“There are parameters that must not be forgotten in the face of power contemporary technological and that invite us to use it more above all when the rights of people are involved in a state social and democratic of law, which is the state model of Dominican Republic,” said Judge Reyes Torres.

The opening remarks were given by the rector of INTEC, Arturo Del Villar, who highlighted the role of the university, and in particular of a technological university, as a critical space for thinking about the impact of artificial intelligence on democracy.

In his speech, he stressed that public debates, traditionally developed in squares and parliaments, today they move to algorithm-mediated digital environments, forcing to rethink the rules of democratic coexistence. In that context, He raised the need to avoid technological determinism and reaffirmed INTEC’s commitment to a digital humanism, in which technology can be a tool of citizen empowerment and not control.

The ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Republic Dominican, Frank Keurhorst, offered an international view on the dual impact of artificial intelligence on democracy, in which He highlighted its transformative potential as the risks it entails.

In his speech, he noted that AI can contribute to services more efficient publics, to greater citizen participation and to a better understanding of complex issues by voters. At the same time, he warned about threats like disinformation to great scale, deepfakes and manipulation of public debate, phenomenum that  can undermine trust in institutions and in electoral processes.

The meeting, held on the campus of INTEC, brought together representatives of the public sector, the media, the academia and civil society.

With this initiative, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the INTEC generates a space for strengthening the dialogue on responsible innovation, digital governance and democracy advocacy in the age of artificial intelligence.