Introduction
This page reports a synthesis of the main elements that characterise the national AI strategy with a specific focus on the public sector. It extracts the information related to a single country from a comparative analysis done by the AI Watch team and reported in full in the science for policy report “AI Watch. European Landscape on the Use of Artificial Intelligence by the Public Sector”.
Main highlights
- AI-powered public services are crucial for the Finnish economy and welfare
- AuroraAI is the key action to change public services with AI with a life-events approach together with private sector partners
- Capacity of civil servants to work with AI needs to be strengthened
- Definition of strong ethical considerations for using AI in public services
- Creation of a sandbox to test AI solutions for the public interest
Strategy analysis
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Learning by doing |
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Stimulating awareness and knowledge sharing |
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Ethical and legal framework |
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Improving data access and quality |
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Funding and procurement |
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Improving internal capacity |
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Comment
Actions are embedded in the AuroraAI programme. The programme lays the foundations to transform the Finnish society towards an AI-society in a human-centred and ethically sustainable manner.
There are plans to publish an ethical framework, defining ethical design practices, monitoring administrations and involving citizens.
In addition, the strategy declare the creation of ‘sandbox’ where AI could be developed and tested with personal data owned by public administrations.
Lastly, there is a recommendation given to review of procurement processes, and in particular the current Public Procurement Act in order to enable more effective public-private AI development.