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Vietnam passes a 35-article AI law with risk tiers and content labelling
See how this story connectsVietnam’s National Assembly passed the Law on Artificial Intelligence (Law No. 134/2025/QH15) on 10 December 2025, with 429 of 434 delegates present voting in favour; it took effect on 1 March 2026. The law sorts AI systems into high, medium and low risk, requires providers to mark AI-generated audio, images and video in machine-readable form and creates an off-budget National AI Development Fund. Systems already running have 18 months to comply in health, education and finance, and 12 months elsewhere.
Why it matters
AI providers and deployers in Vietnam face labelling duties and high-risk obligations, with existing systems due to comply by March 2027, or September 2027 in health, education and finance.
- When
- 10 Dec 2025
- ID
WTA-N-2025-0128- Where
- Vietnam
- Who
- National Assembly of Vietnam, Ministry of Science and Technology (Vietnam)
- Rules involved
- AI Law Vietnam, In force
- Decree 142/2026 (AI Law implementing decree) Vietnam, In force
Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Vietnam Government News (baochinhphu.vn) and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.
Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.
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Cite this story
WTA-N-2025-0128: “Vietnam passes a 35-article AI law with risk tiers and content labelling.” wheresthe.ai, 10 Dec 2025. https://wheresthe.ai/d/vn-ai-law-passed-2025-12/ (source: Vietnam Government News (baochinhphu.vn)).
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