The ambassador welcomed the ILO Director-General’s report, titled “A moment of choice: Harnessing AI for decent work”.
According to the diplomat, AI is reshaping labor markets, production models and social governance. While it offers significant opportunities to boost productivity, drive innovation, improve public services and support human resource development, it also presents unprecedented challenges related to employment, skills, social inequality, personal data protection and workers’ rights.
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Ambassador Mai Phan Dung, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the United Nations Office in Geneva, addresses the plenary discussion of the 114th session of the International Labor Conference (ILC114) of the International Labor Organization (ILO) on June 8. |
Dung noted that throughout nearly four decades of Doi Moi (Renewal), Vietnam has consistently pursued a people-centered development model, viewing people as the goal, driving force and central actor of development. From a low-income country, Vietnam has emerged as a middle-income developing economy with steadily improving living standards.
Entering a new development phase, Vietnam regards science and technology, innovation, digital transformation and international integration as key drivers of rapid and sustainable growth, he said.
Dung highlighted Politburo Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW on breakthroughs in science, technology, innovation and national digital transformation, and Resolution No. 59-NQ/TW on international integration in the new context, as evidence of the country’s determination to proactively harness emerging global trends, including AI.
The ambassador proposed three priorities to ensure AI supports decent work - investing in human resources and digital skills development; linking digital transformation with decent employment and comprehensive social welfare systems; and building AI governance frameworks based on social dialogue, transparency, accountability and international labor standards.
He also reaffirmed Vietnam’s commitment to the ILO’s fundamental values, multilateralism and a people-centered future of work, while expressing the country’s readiness to strengthen cooperation with the ILO and member states to maximize AI’s potential for decent jobs, social advancement and common prosperity.
Source: VNA