# Finland's Age of Artificial Intelligence: Turning Finland into a leading country in the application of AI (objective and recommendations for measures)

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: Finland
- **Instrument type**: National strategy
- **Status**: Adopted
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland
- **Adopted**: 2017-10-23

## In brief

Finland's Age of Artificial Intelligence (2017) is a non-binding national strategy of Finland, issued by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland. It was adopted on 23 October 2017. Government programme; no obligations on private organisations. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Summary

The 2017 report of the steering group appointed by the Minister of Economic Affairs proposed eight key actions to make Finland a leader in applying AI: enhancing business competitiveness, using data in all sectors, faster adoption, top-level expertise and talent, bold decisions and investments, the best public services, new cooperation models and a human-centred approach. It launched the national AI programme continued in the 2019 final report and the AI 4.0 programme.

## Scope

Government programme; no obligations on private organisations.

## Key dates

2017-10-23: interim report published; 2019-03: final report "Leading the way into the age of AI".

## Notes on dates

Dates are taken from the linked official source; a reviewer should confirm in-force and application dates before relying on them.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0075 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0075; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/finland-age-of-artificial-intelligence-2017
- **Official source**: https://julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/handle/10024/160391
- **Source document**: Finland's Age of Artificial Intelligence
- **Published by**: Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Finland's Age of Artificial Intelligence: Turning Finland into a leading country in the application of AI (objective and recommendations for measures)" [AIPT-POL-0075, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0075 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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