In his opening speech, General Luong Tam Quang - Politburo member, Minister of Public Security emphasized that AI is no longer a technology of the future but is reshaping the global economy, society and security. He warned that there is a risk of AI being exploited to violate security, causing social instability and creating non-traditional warfare. According to the Minister, the biggest challenge is rapid development but must be safe, controlled and for the people.
Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thang - Politburo member, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council affirmed that AI is becoming a new productive force of the digital age, deeply affecting labor, economy, national defense and security.
Mr. Thang warned about the risk of "losing control" of self-study AI systems, which can be exploited to manipulate information, attack networks or make automatic weapons. At the workshop, the Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics also asked: can Vietnam build a humane, ethical AI model with people as the center?
In that context, Mr. Nguyen Xuan Thang suggested that experts, scientists and management agencies at the workshop not only need to analyze the opportunities that AI brings, but also need to " Provide specific, synchronous and practical solutions to position Vietnam in the global AI ecosystem, develop AI responsibly and humanely, taking people as the center".
Also at the Workshop, Minister of Science and Technology Nguyen Manh Hung said that AI is a national intellectual infrastructure, similar to electricity or telecommunications. Vietnam will issue the AI Law this year, and at the same time update the National Strategy with the goal of building a supercomputing center, an open data system, and widely popularizing AI according to the model of "civil learning in AI cases".
Mr. Hung emphasized: Vietnam's AI development path is the word "and": Global and local, cooperation and autonomy, big tech and startup, open and control technology".
Finally, the Minister affirmed that AI is a powerful tool to help unleash human labor for creative work of higher value, but humans are still the final decision maker. AI is an assistant, not a replacement for human thinking, values and responsibility.
At the workshop, experts also discussed enthusiastically about the risks and ability to control AI, and proposed an action roadmap to make AI a pillar in Vietnam's socio-economic development.
