# Nasjonal strategi for kunstig intelligens (National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence)

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: Norway
- **Instrument type**: National strategy
- **Status**: Adopted
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation
- **Adopted**: 2020-01-14

## In brief

National Strategy for AI (2020) is a non-binding national strategy of Norway, issued by Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation. It was adopted on 14 January 2020. Government programme; no obligations on private organisations. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Summary

Published in January 2020, the strategy sets ethical principles for AI in Norway based on the EU High-Level Expert Group guidelines, and measures on data access and sharing, language resources, research, skills, public-sector and business adoption, security and the Data Protection Authority's sandbox.

## Scope

Government programme; no obligations on private organisations.

## 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-0146 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0146; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/norway-national-strategy-for-artificial-intelligence-2020
- **Official source**: https://www.regjeringen.no/en/dokumenter/nasjonal-strategi-for-kunstig-intelligens/id2685594/
- **Source document**: National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence
- **Published by**: Government of Norway
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: high
- **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). "Nasjonal strategi for kunstig intelligens (National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence)" [AIPT-POL-0146, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0146 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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