Iceland's AI Action Plan 2025-2027

Summary

Iceland's first national AI action plan, with 20 actions in five pillars (AI to benefit everyone, competitive business, education, public services, healthcare), building on the 2021 AI strategy. Its safety-governance content includes Action 2, which assesses the adaptations arising from incorporating the EU AI Act through the EEA Agreement and prepares an AI bill naming the responsible institutions (spring 2026); Action 5, which analyses AI's effect on democratic debate, information disorder and foreign interference and sets guidelines for transparent AI use in politics (autumn 2026); and Action 16, updating standards for safe, transparent public-sector use of AI (spring 2027).

Safety topics

Scope

Borderline scope Existing scope_note kept: action plan whose safety content is limited to a few actions.

Status notes

Published in July 2025 in Icelandic as 'Aðgerðaáætlun um gervigreind 2025-2027' (ISBN 978-9935-570-03-1) and in English (ISBN 978-9935-570-05-5); the government announced the English edition on 1 July 2025 and the Icelandic one on 2 July 2025. The plan is valid for two years from publication, with a review every six months and a comprehensive review no later than mid-2027; Iceland's 2021 AI strategy is to be reviewed in parallel. It builds on that strategy and on a November 2024 report on the economic opportunities of AI in Iceland, and each action names a responsible ministry, an implementing body and a time frame. The EFTA's EEA-Lex database lists the AI Act as under scrutiny for incorporation into the EEA Agreement by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway (as stored on 17 October 2026).

Sources

Open the official source https://www.stjornarradid.is/library/?itemid=55ec2a72-a5b9-11f0-b896-005056bcde1f

Secondary source: https://www.stjornarradid.is/library/?itemid=6f0d36d4-72c8-11f0-b894-005056bcde1f

Local copy

Verification

History

1. 2026-10-18scope_note: National AI action plan whose main focus is benefit, business, education, public → Existing scope_note kept: action plan whose safety content is limited to a few a — pipeline run 2026-10-18-refresh-level-rule-2 (refresh), candidate IS-012026-10-18-refresh-level-rule-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-18secondary_url: https://www.stjornarradid.is/library/?itemid=55ec2a72-a5b9-11f0-b896-005056bcde1 → https://www.stjornarradid.is/library/?itemid=6f0d36d4-72c8-11f0-b894-005056bcde1 — the English edition (now official_url) -> the Icelandic edition in the government library, the original-language text that gives original_title2026-10-18-refresh-level-rule-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
3. 2026-10-18official_url: https://www.stjornarradid.is/frettir/grein/2025-07-01-Icelands-AI-Action-Plan-20 → https://www.stjornarradid.is/library/?itemid=55ec2a72-a5b9-11f0-b896-005056bcde1 — the government news item of 1 July 2025 (an announcement) -> the English edition of the plan in the government library, the plan's own text (rule 7c); the English edition is one of the issuer's own texts, carries the ISBN in official_identifier and is the record's english_version2026-10-18-refresh-level-rule-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
4. 2026-10-18date_published: 2025-07-01 → 2025-07 — 2025-07-01 -> 2025-07: the plan's own text (both editions' imprints) gives only 'July 2025' / 'Júlí 2025'; the day comes from the government's news items, which are announcements, and the notes already give both days (rule 7b)2026-10-18-refresh-level-rule-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
5. 2026-10-17english_version: – → {"kind": "authentic", "url": "https://www.stjornarradid.is/library/?itemid=55ec2 — the English edition is published by the ministry under its own imprint and ISBN, as one of its own texts2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
6. 2026-10-17scope_note: – → National AI action plan whose main focus is benefit, business, education, public — pipeline run 2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 (recheck), candidate IS-012026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
7. 2026-10-17notes: Published in July 2025 (ISBN 978-9935-570-05-5); a draft was consulted in Novemb → Published in July 2025 in Icelandic as 'Aðgerðaáætlun um gervigreind 2025-2027' — rewritten from the stored plans and news items: both editions and ISBNs, validity, review cycle, basis and the AI Act's EEA status added; statements resting on no stored file removed2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
8. 2026-10-17original_title: – → Aðgerðaáætlun um gervigreind 2025-2027 — the Icelandic edition, stored in this run, is titled 'Aðgerðaáætlun um gervigreind 2025-2027'2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

EU AI Act European Union · Partially in force

Citation

Ministry of Culture, Innovation and Higher Education (Iceland). Iceland's AI Action Plan 2025-2027 [ISBN 978-9935-570-05-5]. 2025-07. https://www.stjornarradid.is/library/?itemid=55ec2a72-a5b9-11f0-b896-005056bcde1f. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-18 (level A). Local copy archive/IS-01/2026-10-18/official.pdf retrieved 2026-10-18 07:40:52 UTC, SHA-256 77fea448f9076ca0f0d43f903c564a149497ec0466546945a2da1f6536cc61f1. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record IS-01.

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