Artificial Intelligence strategy in Finland

Finland is the first country having released its AI strategy in Europe already in March 2017. According to a study committed by Accenture and Frontier Economics, Finland ranked second that year, after the US, among the 11 developed countries in which economic growth potential is made possible by AI. According to Finland, this is because of the country's business structure (technologically intensive) and the public sector degree of digitalisation (see Finland, 2017, p. 12). The national strategy has been commissioned by the Government of Juha Sipilä to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, which in turn has nominated a steering group on AI to work on the national strategy. The AI Working Group has released the first draft of the strategy in 2017, though the work on the optimum public policies to be implemented is actually an on-going process, which has already been updated in 2019.