The renovation in Vietnam has been taking place for more than 36 years and being increasingly more profound and deeper. In the current context, the need to transform the economic model from breadth to depth and restructure the economy towards quality, efficiency, and competitiveness requires higher education to meet the learning needs of the people and quickly contribute to the training of high-quality human resources. The influence of the trend of the times, of science and technology in general, and the birth of ChatGPT, in particular, has created a global craze, which is the topic of discussion and research in many countries around the world. The impacts and effects of ChatGPT have made it necessary for higher education to drastically change from philosophy and educational objectives to the role of lecturers, from teaching methods to the central position of learners. Therefore, the understanding of Ho Chi Minh's thoughts on the content, educational methods, and the application of contact with the chatGPT in higher education in Vietnam is one of the issues of profound theoretical and practical significance. This study is conducted to go into the analysis to clarify the fundamental content of Ho Chi Minh's thoughts on people and the promotion of the role of university lecturers in the impact of the current ChatGPT in Vietnam. The results show that the content of Ho Chi Minh's thoughts on people is expressed through the points: people are a unified whole between the individual person and social person; the new model of people is completely developed; people are both the goal and the motivation of social development. Applying Ho Chi Minh's ideas on human issues to promote the role of university lecturers in the face of the impact of the current ChatGPT in Vietnam is shown through: lecturers need to play a content-oriented role; lecturers play a role in opening knowledge and supporting students' self-study process; lecturers play a role in directing students' learning and conducting assessment and examination of students' self-study results. The limitation of this study is it has not pointed out and analyzed the characteristics and factors affecting the renovation of lecturers' teaching methods before the impact of ChatGPT