UK and Norway deepen AI cooperation on security and compute

The United Kingdom and Norway have issued a joint statement to deepen bilateral cooperation on artificial intelligence across compute, defence, AI security, and international governance.

• UK Minister for Artificial Intelligence Kanishka Narayan and Norwegian Minister for Digitalisation and Public Governance Torgeir Micaelsen met on the margins of the Atlantic Futures Forum on 12 November and said they intend to make AI a new area of bilateral cooperation.
• The statement lists potential collaboration on compute infrastructure and hardware integration, Taskforce RAID and Norway’s Defence Center for Data and AI, UK AISI and AI Norway, plus work on international AI governance, research and innovation ecosystems, and links between AI and quantum technologies, biotechnology and robotics. It also says the statement is non-binding and subject to laws, policies, and available resources.