AI and digital citizenship
Science fiction has been responsible for generating the first constructions on AI in the social imaginary, usually with apocalyptic perspectives and dystopian futures, which has fostered the fear of the unknown. Nevertheless, AI is already part of our life.
The application of AI in Public Administration opens a series of potentialities that can radically change the way we interact with the State, the way we design and implement public policies and the way we measure results and make decisions.
Currently, several nations are already applying AI systems in areas of high sensitivity such as education, the justice system or public health. For this reason, it is increasingly important for the citizenship to have sufficient knowledge and the availability of tools to interact with AI, protect their rights and know the scope of the application of emerging technologies.
The application of AI may have effects on the way we use and protect data, on equal access to public services and opportunities and on how we exercise our rights and interact. For this reason, this strategy includes a dimension that seeks to prepare citizens to take advantage of opportunities and face the challenges that AI poses, as well as to generate the necessary confidence in people to develop and use new technologies.
With this in view, the following objectives have been defined:
OBJECTIVE VIII: To raise awareness and citizen trust
- To implement dissemination and awareness campaigns that allow to transmit to the public what Artificial Intelligence is and how it is being used by the Public Administration
- To strengthen the mechanisms so that citizens know their rights in the digital sphere and how to exercise them.
- To promote the development of Digital Intelligence, in its three levels (digital citizenship, creativity and digital initiative) to enhance the involvement, participation and apprehension in the development and application of AI solutions