Summary

• Thailand is consulting on a risk-based AI Act covering prohibited uses, high-risk systems, generative AI, platforms, and foreign providers serving people in Thailand.
• Vietnam’s new rules link AI regulation with intellectual property, training-data controls, content labeling, conformity assessments, and 72-hour serious-incident reporting.
• ASEAN is expanding regional coordination through AI ethics guidance, a working group, and a proposed safety network focused on evaluation, red teaming, benchmarking, and threat modeling.
• Thailand is building implementation capacity through an AI Governance Practice Center, impact-assessment tools, education guidance, justice-sector work, and financial-sector red teaming.
• National approaches remain uneven, ranging from Singapore’s model framework and Indonesia’s principles to emerging binding laws in Vietnam and proposed legislation elsewhere.
• AI infrastructure and technology ties with China and the United States create additional concerns about export controls, dependency, standards, and regional strategic autonomy.
• Bangladesh is developing a national policy focused on data protection, cybersecurity, public-sector AI use, responsible data, and AI education.