Development of AI and Law: Analysis of the Balance Between Regulation as a Competitiveness Factor and Individual Rights

This project aims to design a robust legal framework for Artificial Intelligence (AI) governance that ensures algorithmic transparency, accountability, and effective protection of fundamental rights. The rapid digital transformation creates regulatory challenges that affect not only individual rights but also the competitive position of Member States within the global economy. Law becomes a strategic driver of competitiveness: regulatory models that successfully balance technological innovation with legal safeguards will attract investment, talent, and development, while overly rigid or insufficient regulations risk generating economic and social disadvantages. This tension requires solutions that preserve human dignity without slowing technological progress. The research focuses on the interaction between the EU AI Act and national legal systems across multidisciplinary domains, including tax, commercial, civil, labor law, legal philosophy, and private international law. It addresses critical risks such as bias, opacity, and lack of explainability, proposing multi- layered transparency standards and audit mechanisms to foster social trust and corporate responsibility. The project will develop compliance guidelines aligned with EU and national regulations, considering individuals in their roles as citizens, consumers, workers, and entrepreneurs. Additionally, it will assess the impact of the forthcoming Digital Omnibus Regulation and its role in regulatory simplification. The ultimate goal is to deliver solid legal criteria for ethical and competitive AI governancecapable of guaranteeing fundamental rights while strengthening the strategic position of Member States in the digital economy. Impacto científico técnico o internacional esperable: La obtención del reconocimiento de este proyecto por parte del Ministerio permitiría al grupo investigador alcanzar dos objetivos estratégicos, ambos vinculados a la función académica y científica en el ámbito del Derecho. El primero consiste en ofrecer a la comunidad académica y a los profesionales jurídicos un instrumento que permita conocer el estado actual de la regulación de los derechos de la persona física frente al uso de la Inteligencia Artificial en sus dimensiones patrimonial, personal, laboral y ciudadana. El segundo objetivo se orienta a sistematizar los esfuerzos desarrollados por distintas personas investigadoras, con el fin de trasladar este conocimiento a la docencia universitaria en estudios de grado, máster y doctorado y a otros foros especializados que demandan análisis rigurosos sobre la evolución normativa derivada de un hecho determinante: el Derecho se configura hoy como un factor de competitividad económica entre Estados, condicionando la regulación de los derechos fundamentales. En consecuencia, se priorizará la difusión en el entorno académico y docente, con el propósito de formar y especializar profesionales en la resolución jurídica de los conflictos que plantea la transparencia algorítmica en sistemas de Inteligencia Artificial.