Many countries have launched their national strategy documents on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in recent years; in the last five years alone, more than 60 did so, following Canada which was the first to release its document in 2017. In Europe, 20 member states of the European Union (EU), and Norway, have published their national AI strategies by 2021.
This report, G20.AI: National Strategies, Global Ambitions, gives an overview of the AI strategies of G20 countries. It is the second in a series of ORF reports on AI, the first of which was published in 2018 and laid out the national strategies of 12 countries that had released theirs at the time.2 It is vital to understand G20 approaches to optimising the benefits of this transformational technology, as India prepares to take the G20 presidency in December 2022.
