The rapid development of available AI technology during the last year has been a cause of concern, curiosity, speculation, widespread media interest, as well as both utopian and dystopian perspectives on potential consequences of the technology. The cultural sector has been one of the sectors that has attracted most attention and controversy in the AI buzz of last year, related e.g., to cultural workers fearing that their jobs might disappear, to concern of rights-holders, to the lack of remuneration for AI use of cultural content. This paper will look at some of the existing attempts to include AI in explicit cultural policies and cultural policy strategies. At the same time, given the fact that AI technology is a general technological revolution, in which, arguably, all sectors will be affected, relevant policies can also be found elsewhere. The paper is, consequently, centred around two parallel questions: In what way do current/recent cultural policy strategies reflect (upon) AI? And – in what way and to what extent do current/recent AI strategies reflect upon and deal with the sector of cultural production?
