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Artificial intelligence: Challenges for the ecuadorian labor regulatory framework

Abstract:

The development of machinery, technological, digital, biological and other advances in recent times, unleashed what is known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0, with predominance of the implementation of artificial intelligence programmed and operated by humans, the consequence of which is that a considerable number of workers were replaced in the productive activity. In accordance with the vertiginous progress of science, it is considered that the replacement of man by machines generates an impact that in the future could have repercussions on the fragile social security system of Ecuador due to a possible decrease of affiliates, a situation that has been a reality in other countries with greater technological development, which have even presented conflicts of an ethical nature involving business and union interests. This work addressed situations in which artificial intelligence could be legislated in the country. A relational type of research was developed, using techniques such as the criteria of experts and professionals in the areas of Computer Science and Law, which allowed contrasting the positions of the researchers. The main results identified potential conditions that would require regulation in the Ecuadorian regulatory context.