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| Eric Soulier, Counsellor for Cooperation and Cultural Affairs on the French Embassy in Việt Nam. — Photos courtesy of the French Institute in Việt Nam |
HÀ NỘI — The means to perceive know-how, assess the alternatives and dangers synthetic intelligence (AI) presents and use AI ethically and responsibly can be key conditions for building a digital society that serves the widespread good, mentioned Eric Soulier, Counsellor for Cooperation and Cultural Affairs on the French Embassy in Việt Nam.
He was talking on Monday at a coaching workshop titled ‘Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies: Towards Ethical and Responsible Use’, collectively organised by the French Embassy in Việt Nam, the French Institute in Việt Nam, the Hồ Chí Minh National Academy of Politics and the Academy of Journalism and Communication.
The occasion was held as a part of the French authorities’s technical help challenge in Việt Nam named ‘Modernising Việt Nam’s public administration by digital transformation’, funded by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs by the French Embassy in Việt Nam.
Soulier mentioned that AI is not the stuff of science fiction; it has turn into a sensible actuality.
It provides great alternatives for innovation, productiveness beneficial properties and broader entry to data, he famous. However, it raises many vital questions. These embrace the ethics of AI, knowledge safety, the reliability and trustworthiness of data, info safety and cybersecurity, in addition to the accountability of governments, leaders and AI customers themselves, Soulier mentioned.
AI is now current throughout just about each facet of life, together with training, vocational coaching, journalism, and the communications sector, in accordance to Soulier.
He added that its rising function requires us to ask what competencies and abilities we’d like to develop to adapt efficiently to the continued digital transformation.
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| Participants on the occasion in a bunch photograph. |
Senior French specialists from the modernising public administration challenge targeted their discussions on how AI is altering training and the office and the way college students ought to put together for the period of digital transformation and synthetic intelligence.
They additionally talked about sensible functions of AI in studying and on a regular basis work, with a specific deal with its use in public administration and governance.
Associate Professor Lưu Văn Quảng, deputy director of the Academy of Journalism and Communication, mentioned AI software ought to be guided by a human-centred method, by which know-how helps and enhances human creativity, crucial considering and social duty, reasonably than changing the central function of human beings.
Technological development should go hand in hand with an acceptable authorized framework, moral requirements, accountability and efficient threat administration, he mentioned.
“In journalism, communications and public policy communication, fact-checking, safeguarding public trust, upholding professional ethics and improving the quality of public discourse should remain fundamental principles in the use of AI,” he mentioned. — VNS