Norway will make the safety of the most advanced AI models its top priority when it chairs Nordic-Baltic digitalisation cooperation in 2027. Minister of Digitalisation and Public Governance Torgeir Micaelsen announced the plan at a ministerial meeting in Copenhagen on 6 November.
— We must understand the risks and ensure the safe development and use of advanced AI systems. AI will therefore be Norway’s main priority next year, Micaelsen said in a press release.
According to the ministry, Norway will follow up the call for control of frontier AI models. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and Finnish President Alexander Stubb launched that initiative in September. It states that AI must remain under human direction, oversight and control.
At the same meeting, the Nordic and Baltic ministers adopted a joint statement on digital sovereignty. It says the region has become too reliant on a few providers of critical digital services and infrastructure. It points to closer cooperation on procuring cloud connectivity and on the security of subsea cables.
Norway’s other digital priorities for the presidency are digital security, sovereignty and a more integrated digital region.
