The National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence

Summary

Norway's national AI strategy. Its chapter on 'Trustworthy AI' adopts the EU ethics principles for trustworthy AI, privacy by design, and security in AI systems. It says supervisory authorities should check that AI in their sectors is responsible and trustworthy, and it sets up a data-protection regulatory sandbox at the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (Datatilsynet).

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Scope

Borderline scope Mainly a strategy for data, infrastructure, research, skills and adoption of AI, with its safety and risk-governance content in the chapter on trustworthy AI (ethical principles, privacy by design, security of AI systems, supervision); included as Norway's national AI strategy.

Status notes

Still Norway's national AI strategy, but due to be replaced. On 5 Oct 2026 the Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Governance (Minister Torgeir Micaelsen) announced work on a new national AI strategy, to be presented in the first half of 2027. The ministry said the 2020 strategy, presented under the Solberg government, predates the breakthrough of generative AI and language models, and that the new strategy will also set the direction for Norway's international cooperation on governing the most advanced AI models (frontier models). It is to build on the government's plan for Norway and the National Digitalisation Strategy of 2024.

Sources

Open the official source https://www.regjeringen.no/en/documents/nasjonal-strategi-for-kunstig-intelligens/id2685594/

Secondary source: https://www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/varsler-ny-nasjonal-strategi-for-kunstig-intelligens/id3175602/

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Verification

History

1. 2026-10-17scope_note: – → Mainly a strategy for data, infrastructure, research, skills and adoption of AI, — added: the strategy's main content is data, infrastructure, research, skills and adoption (table of contents, chapters 2 to 4), with safety and risk governance in chapter 5, which under the inclusive rule for strategies with some safety content calls for a scope_note, as on DE-02 and FR-022026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-17notes: Still Norway's formal AI strategy, but it is due to be replaced. On 5 Oct 2026 t → Still Norway's national AI strategy, but due to be replaced. On 5 Oct 2026 the M — the description of the National Digitalisation Strategy as '2024-2030 (Sept 2024)' with AI goals but no AI-safety focus is not in any stored file and was replaced by what the 5 Oct 2026 press release says (the new strategy builds on the National Digitalisation Strategy of 2024); the rest is restated from that press release2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

Norwegian AI Act draft (KI-loven) Norway · Draft / proposed

KI Norge Norway · Published (non-binding, current)

Citation

Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation (now owned by the Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Governance). The National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence. 2020-01-14. https://www.regjeringen.no/en/documents/nasjonal-strategi-for-kunstig-intelligens/id2685594/. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-17 (level A). Local copy archive/NO-01/2026-10-11/official.html retrieved 2026-10-11 14:01:49 UTC, SHA-256 9e2cffb4d9d63e0c9c2eeeed9afbeccc7921ebd055c35f7e2e66a430a71a9b56. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record NO-01.

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