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Norway and Britain’s AI Pact

Norway and Britain want to test powerful AI systems together. Their new pledge also raises a practical question about where public services run them.

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Odd Inge Teige
Nov 14

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Norway and the United Kingdom signed a statement of intent in Oslo on November 12 to explore joint testing of artificial intelligence and secure hosting for public-sector computing. Torgeir Micaelsen, Norway’s minister of digitalization and public governance, and Kanishka Narayan, Britain’s minister for artificial intelli…

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