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I'm Martin!Martin Mohr Olsen

I shape Arctic
AI policy.

The North Atlantic is one of the most geopolitically significant and least understood corners of the AI policy landscape. I work at its centre — helping small nations navigate the AI transition without losing their languages, their data, or their sovereignty.

My focus →
The challenge

The smallest nations in the Arctic and North Atlantic — the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland — face a version of the AI transition nobody has designed for. Their languages are underrepresented in training data. Their datasets are too small for the infrastructure assumptions baked into most AI policy frameworks. And geopolitical pressure is intensifying precisely as these decisions are being made.

The stakes

This is not a peripheral problem — it is a test case for whether AI development will be genuinely pluralistic, or whether it will, by default, benefit only those large enough to be counted.

My role

I work on these questions from the inside. At the University of the Faroe Islands, I move across government, academia, journalism, and industry — carrying perspectives between sectors and building the conditions for cross-sector AI policy conversations the North Atlantic urgently needs.

AI Network

Hugar — Building a national, cross-sector AI ecosystem — connecting government, industry, and research around shared priorities.

Consulting

Logi — AI strategy, governance, and policy advisory for Nordic and Arctic organisations.

Podcast

Vitlíki — co-host of a Faroese-language podcast on AI and society.

Martin Mohr Olsen

Martin Mohr Olsen, PhD

Tórshavn, Faroe Islands

Open to

Conversations with policymakers, journalists, and researchers working on AI governance, digital sovereignty, or small-state futures. Speaking engagements, media contributions, advisory mandates, and collaborative projects. If you are thinking about the North Atlantic — reach out.