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UK and Norway issue joint statement of intent on AI

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Source: GOV.UK

UK Minister for AI Kanishka Narayan and Norway’s Minister of Digitalisation and Public Governance Torgeir Micaelsen met on 12 November 2026 on the margins of the Atlantic Futures Forum and issued a joint statement of intent on AI. The statement lists possible areas for joint work, including compute infrastructure and hardware, AI-enabled defence capabilities through the UK’s Taskforce RAID and Norway’s Defence Centre for Data and AI, and sharing best practice on AI security, testing and evaluation between UK AISI and AI Norway. It expresses the participants’ intentions only, and cooperation will be subject to each country’s laws, policies and available resources.

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The UK Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade and Norway’s Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Governance will coordinate the work, which creates no legal rights or obligations for either side.

When
12 Nov 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0871
Where
United Kingdom, Norway
Who
UK Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, Norwegian Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Governance, Taskforce RAID, Defence Centre for Data and AI, UK AISI, AI Norway; Kanishka Narayan, Torgeir Micaelsen

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WTA-N-2026-0871: “UK and Norway issue joint statement of intent on AI.” wheresthe.ai, 12 Nov 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/gb-uk-and-norway-issue-joint-statement-of-intent-on-ai-2026-11/ (source: GOV.UK).

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