A challenging call: teach AI what is right and what is wrong, and how to make technology a tool of transparency, accountability, and the common good.
When Ethics Becomes AI's “Second Brain”
While the exciting atmosphere of AIWS Angel was still spreading, the Organizing Committee of AI Contest 2025 quickly announced the second theme - AIWS Ethics, marking the transition from "AI companion" to "AI responsible".
If in the first topic, contestants were encouraged to create “tech angels” to help people learn, innovate and take care of their health, AIWS Ethics takes the challenge to a higher level: designing and developing tools to assess ethical values in building and using AI. The goal is not only to create useful products, but also to orient AI development in the right direction - transparent, responsible and for the common good of humanity.
Entries can be innovative and groundbreaking ideas, or simple, accessible, educational , and scalable software, applications, or assessment systems. This is a fertile ground for humanistic innovation - where technology and ethics go hand in hand.
Why is “Ethics” chosen now?
There has never been a greater need for humanity to talk about ethics in technology than there is now. As artificial intelligence moves out of the lab and into everyday life, big questions arise: Can AI be biased? Can it invade privacy? Can it make bad or even harmful decisions?
A study by the Annenberg Media Center (USA) shows that more than 70% of global users are concerned about AI being misused or lacking ethical control. According to UNESCO, international organizations are working to build global AI ethics assessment frameworks, such as the “Ethical Impact Assessment (EIA)” or the “Recommendation on the Ethics of AI” framework - to measure the social and human impact of technology.
However, most of these tools are still for large corporations or research institutes. The young community, students, startups - dynamic, creative and close to users - do not have any tools close enough, easy to use to evaluate and spread ethical standards in AI. And that is the gap that AIWS Ethics wants to fill.
From technology to conscience: the AIWS Ethics difference
While previous seasons of the AI Contest focused on applications and technical breakthroughs, AIWS Ethics is an invitation to look deeply into the “inner workings” of technology. Here, the question is no longer “What can AI do?” but “What should AI do—and what should it not do?”
This topic requires participants to not only understand programming and algorithms, but also the ability to ask ethical questions, social criticism and humane design. A programmer can become a gatekeeper for AI ethics; an educator can create a tool to teach technology ethics; a startup team can develop an application to evaluate the transparency of chatbots or image generators.
It is in this process that AIWS Ethics opens up a very special creative space - where data meets philosophy, algorithms meet compassion.
In the spirit of the theme, countless creative directions can be envisioned: an app that helps students understand fairness in AI; a community website that allows for “ethical scores” of popular AI tools; a chatbot that can pose hypothetical ethical situations and analyze users’ decisions; or software that tests machine learning models to detect data bias.
These innovations are not only about technology, but also about education - raising awareness of AI ethics for the community. Each product is a small brick that builds a culture of "responsible AI".
The journey of "sowing seeds of conscience" for artificial intelligence
That saying is also the soul of this year's theme: AI not only needs big data, but also a big heart.
With AIWS Ethics, the AI Contest 2025 Organizing Committee hopes to create a wave of responsible innovation, where young people not only want to make AI stronger - but also want to make AI better. This theme does not stop at technology products, but also the journey of building culture: ethical culture in the machine learning era.
The competition invites not only programmers, but also educators, artists, social researchers—anyone interested in how technology shapes the human world .
An invitation from the future
AI Contest 2025 is opening a new chapter - where every idea is judged not only by performance, but also by responsibility. The theme AIWS Ethics is a reminder that if artificial intelligence can learn to think, humans must teach it to live kindly.
And who knows, from this competition, a group of Vietnamese students may create the first AI ethics assessment tool for the global community - a "Make in Vietnam" product that is both smart and conscientious.
(Source: VLAB Innovation)
Source: https://vietnamnet.vn/ai-contest-2025-aiws-ethics-hanh-trinh-gioi-hat-luong-tam-cho-ai-2449711.html
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