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The global discourse surrounding artificial intelligence has fundamentally shifted. It is no longer just a race for hardware dominance or a competition of sheer computational scale; it is a battle for strategic autonomy and human-centered design.
At the heart of this technological awakening, GStar Summit 2026: AI & Humanity was held at the Sheraton Saigon Grand Opera Hotel on May 29.
Co-organized by the New Turing Institute (NTI) and Pacific Gateway Partners (PGP), the GStar Summit 2026 featured 20 world-class speakers, 15 sponsors, partners, and welcomed more than 30 media and news outlets to Ho Chi Minh City.
The event brought together over 1,000 participants from 160+ companies and institutions, with 28 percent in leadership roles and 77 percent from technology and digital-first companies.
The attendees included representatives from global tech giants like Google, Naver, Meta, SK Group, Hyundai, and NVIDIA; Vietnam’s leading technology, fintech, and corporate players including FPT, VNG, MoMo, Grab, Vietnam Airlines, and FINOS; alongside senior public and institutional representatives from the U.S. State Department, the Ho Chi Minh City administration, the Milken Institute, and VinaCapital.
To explore the frontiers of technology and human progress, the summit gathered world-renowned AI pioneers, including Dr. Ed H. Chi, Vice-President of Research, Google DeepMind, Dr. Thang Luong, Principal Scientist & Director of Research, Google DeepMind, and Dr. Po-Shen Loh, Professor of Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University.
Anchoring these accelerating technical milestones back to the human element, the afternoon session opened with captivating remarks delivered by Jean DeSombre, Founder and Partner at PGP.
Holding a prestigious Harvard JD/MBA background and possessing extensive experience leading healthcare and technology operations across Asia, Europe, and the United States, including her former corporate role managing a $3B+ revenue platform with 40,000 employees, DeSombre challenged the audience’s assumptions about human capability in an automated world.
DeSombre opened her presentation with a personal confession. She recalled a moment when her teenage son showed her an essay on his laptop that was perfectly structured and highly persuasive, yet completely generated by AI in seconds.
When she questioned him, he responded with a simple, challenging query: “Mom. Why would I ever do this myself again?”
According to DeSombre, this question captures the underlying tension for the modern workforce and education system.
Bypassing the natural friction of writing, deep thinking, and navigating complex professional problems risks raising a highly capable but ‘hollow’ workforce, a generation that can optimize systems and prompt machines but cannot empathize or hear its own conscience.
To illustrate how far this dependency has reached, she shared a striking anecdote from an elite university in the United States, where students caught using AI to cheat on an exam subsequently used AI to draft their apology letters.
“We have now entered a world where even remorse can be outsourced to AI,” DeSombre noted during her speech.
“If AI can do our thinking, our writing, our creating, and now even our feeling, what exactly remains for us?”
Cultivating ‘Three I’s’ over machine intelligence
While the morning sessions explored the future of universal assistant agents and reasoning models, DeSombre’s afternoon keynote shifted the focus toward human character.
She introduced a strategic framework she terms ‘The Three I’s,’ which she believes will become increasingly valuable as AI masters traditional intelligence:
Instinct: The ability to know what matters before the data explicitly tells you.
Intuition: The ability to sense what qualitative data cannot capture, the subtle emotional dynamics of a room, a client, or a specific moment.
Imagination: The ability to create what does not yet exist and to view the world as it could be.
While machines can optimize systems and generate calculated outputs, DeSombre emphasized that they cannot ask fundamental human questions regarding what is worth caring about or what an individual standing in front of them truly needs.
This insight set a perfect foundation for Dr. Loh’s subsequent session on reimagining education post-AI, and Dr. Luong’s presentation on moving from Gemini Deep Think’s IMO Gold Medal to complex scientific discoveries.
The strategic outlook shared at the summit remains deeply supportive of technological advancement, spotlighting AI’s massive potential to democratize education and accelerate scientific discovery.
However, technology itself does not determine the path; human values do.
The defining challenge for a developing ecosystem like Vietnam is ensuring that these human values are protected by a sovereign infrastructure foundation.
To turn this vision into reality, PGP aligns its capital allocation strategy with heavy technology foundations, focusing investments on five critical pillars built for industrial scale: advanced semiconductor manufacturing, advanced manufacturing infrastructure, critical minerals & rare earth elements, biomanufacturing, and energy security tied directly to AI data centers requiring $2 billion to $3 billion per project.
Backed by NTI’s regional ecosystem initiatives and PGP’s strategic bridge connecting the United States and Asia, Vietnam stands at a unique historical junction to define what human-centered technology looks like from its inception.
True, long-term success will belong to societies and enterprises that thoughtfully integrate machine intelligence with human wisdom rooted in instinct, intuition, and imagination.
Yen Viet / Tuoi Tre News
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