Dao Trung Thanh (Uncle Dao) is the author of AI Ethics: Principles and Practice (Vietnamese edition, Science - Technology - Communications Publishing House, 2026), an independent researcher on AI ethics and governance and an AI strategy advisor. The book argues that AI ethics has to be put into practice through processes, delegated authority, controls and evidence.

He has more than 30 years in telecommunications, IT, cybersecurity and digital transformation. He started as a telecommunications engineer at Ho Chi Minh City Post and Telecommunications, then served as Deputy Director of Netsoft (VNPT Ho Chi Minh City), CTO of MVV Group, CIO of Vinschool and Deputy Director of the Institute of Blockchain Technology and Artificial Intelligence (ABAII). He holds a master's degree in cybersecurity from the Institut National des Télécommunications (France) and a master's degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology.

He has briefed central Party and government bodies in Vietnam on AI, contributed comments on the Law on Digital Technology Industry and the Law on Artificial Intelligence, and taught programmes for Viettel, Vietcombank, BVSC and other organisations. He sits on the Executive Committee of the Vietnam Digital Communications Association (VDCA) and is an administrator of the Bình dân học AI community, which has more than 650,000 members.