In the new century, people have more and more great innovations that can change the history of humanity, including the most brilliant inventions. And when it comes to intelligence, we will think of AI as the “hottest” trend of technology in the world in recent years.
AI or artificial intelligence is understood simply as the intelligence of machines created by humans. This intelligence can think and learn as human intelligence, process data at a broader, more systematic, more scientific level and faster than humans. But can AI completely replace humans?
Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, Director of The Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation (MDI), Founder and Editor-in-Chief of VietNamNet Newspaper, confirmed that in the “Coffee Morning” show of a popular Vietnamese television channel – VTV3 – that AI and robots cannot replace humans.
Although AI is increasingly being used in many fields and activities in daily life, humans are still irreplaceable, especially in the field of social management.
The AI-Government, an initiative launched by the MDI in June 2018, will help manage AI to serve citizens more intelligently, more automatically and more responsibly. The AI-Government is a government in which AI is widely and thoroughly applied in the management, decision making and policy making process of governing bodies rather than in just public services (human contact, streamlined payroll system, etc.).
For example, given the US-China trade war, the government of both countries needs to make the smartest decisions. Given the full data system, AI’s intelligent and optimized algorithms will recommend smart, convincing decisions. Furthermore, AI can help us make decisions very quickly.
But it is important that AI remains a tool, an “effective assistant” offering suggestions to people while people are the ones who will consider and make final decisions. Therefore, when using AI, human intelligence needs to be one level higher. Many people think that when there are robots, they will have nothing to do anymore. On the contrary, new and more demanding jobs will open up.
It is worth mentioning that when we put AI into application, we recognize that people have many good traits but also morally ambiguous traits, while AI is very honest. In Vietnam, Luu Quang Vu’s play Green Chrysanthemum on Marsh is a typical example: Nearly 40 years ago, Luu Quang Vu thought about robots that could help people look back and adjust themselves so that they became more honest and more warm-hearted. And so, humanity will need a standard to manage and control AI in general.
That is why the MDI developed the AI World Society Initiative (AIWS Initiative), published on November 29, 2017. According to Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, the basic purpose of this initiative is to establish a society with the best and most effective AI application, bringing good to humans.
To illustrate the need for this, he also reiterated the fact that cyber security is a “headache” to the world today. As we did not anticipate the development of the Internet and computers, we have left “holes” that are difficult to overcome. For AI, although the same problem has not been officially declared, we still need to prepare in advance; otherwise, as Prof. Stephen Hawking said, such “holes” would be a threat to humanity in the future.
Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan also affirmed that the MDI and its associates who are experts from Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), etc. agree to contribute their research, ideas, or initiatives on AIWS and AI-Government to serve humanity, creating a good society where AI is not harmful to humans.