[AI Summary]: Academia Sinica Vice President Peng Hsin-Kun led a delegation to the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC) 2025 annual conference held September 20-22 at the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences in Hanoi. Over 100 experts from Taiwan, Korea, Japan, US, UK, Vietnam, China, Indonesia, and Malaysia participated in exploring “Mind Meets Machine: Rethinking Intelligence and Knowledge in the Age of AI.” The conference featured 67 research papers and 20 academic posters covering digital archives, Buddhist literature, GIS, cross-national research, technology ethics, and social applications. Academia Sinica researchers presented multiple papers on AI applications in humanities, including historical place name reconstruction, ethics in human-machine interaction, ChatGPT applications in the Art & Architecture Thesaurus, and development of the Vietnamese Han-Nom literature database. The conference included Taiwan-Vietnam joint book exhibitions and six ECAI workshops. PNC 2026 will return to Taiwan.