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In recent years, software engineering has played an important and decisive role in the economic development of a globalized, interconnected, and competitive world. These characteristics determine public policies and private ventures that promote the development of derived technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence, present in the 2016-2020 five-year period in the Republic of Panama. For the purposes of this article, 9 documents from scientific, academic and related electronic addresses were analyzed, pointing to three key terms of the software literature: software engineering, its future and Artificial Intelligence, covering general parameters of innovation, characteristics and development, to a state of the investigative art of Artificial Intelligence, in order to glimpse its scientific, business and institutional development, concluding its low development and impact in Panama.