Does Law on Artificial Intelligence require Human Oversight?
Vietnam • enforcing
Yes — 1 provision
Requirements at a glance
This regulation imposes 8 specific requirements for Human Oversight across 1 provision:
- Human-centric principle — Art. 4 places humans at the centre and states that AI serves humans rather than replacing human authority and responsibility
- Human control — Art. 4 calls for maintaining human control and the ability to intervene in every system decision and action, along with inspection and monitoring across development and operation
- Interference prohibition — Art. 7(4) prohibits obstructing, disabling or distorting human supervision, intervention and control mechanisms required by the Act
- High-risk provider duty — Art. 14(1)(d) requires providers to design high-risk systems to permit human supervision and intervention
- High-risk deployer duty — Art. 14(2)(b) requires deployers to ensure the ability for human intervention during use
- Ethics framework boundary — Art. 26 creates a national ethics framework and says the State encourages organisations and individuals to apply it; that encouragement is not restated here as a mandatory private impact assessment
- Public-sector impact assessment — Art. 27 applies to state management and public services. Covered operating agencies must assess high-risk or materially rights-, fairness- or public-interest-impacting uses and preserve human supervision/intervention; the human decision-maker retains authority and responsibility
- Translation — These English descriptions are working translations of visually reviewed Vietnamese excerpts, not official English wording
Human Oversight and Ethical Principles
Requirements
| Requirement | Details |
|---|---|
| Human-centric principle | Art. 4 places humans at the centre and states that AI serves humans rather than replacing human authority and responsibility |
| Human control | Art. 4 calls for maintaining human control and the ability to intervene in every system decision and action, along with inspection and monitoring across development and operation |
| Interference prohibition | Art. 7(4) prohibits obstructing, disabling or distorting human supervision, intervention and control mechanisms required by the Act |
| High-risk provider duty | Art. 14(1)(d) requires providers to design high-risk systems to permit human supervision and intervention |
| High-risk deployer duty | Art. 14(2)(b) requires deployers to ensure the ability for human intervention during use |
| Ethics framework boundary | Art. 26 creates a national ethics framework and says the State encourages organisations and individuals to apply it; that encouragement is not restated here as a mandatory private impact assessment |
| Public-sector impact assessment | Art. 27 applies to state management and public services. Covered operating agencies must assess high-risk or materially rights-, fairness- or public-interest-impacting uses and preserve human supervision/intervention; the human decision-maker retains authority and responsibility |
| Translation | These English descriptions are working translations of visually reviewed Vietnamese excerpts, not official English wording |
Penalties
| Violation | Fine |
|---|---|
| Violation | Art. 29 applies administrative or criminal liability according to applicable law and civil compensation for damage; detailed administrative penalties are delegated to the Government, and no fixed fine is stated here |