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/Country
United Arab Emirates
36/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 57% of countries
#68 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention36
- Adoption · single source73
- Regulation50
- Problems and attacks37
- Opportunities18
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents1
1 incident in the last 24 months · percentile among countries
AI exposure67
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 73.3% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
AI compute capacity: 1,749 (2026-11) · Epoch AI — GPU Clusters
Missing safeguards52
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: +1.17 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: +0.54 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: -1.07 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
91
Exposure to threats
56
as a target 51 · as a cause 61
Open and exposedMedia coverage: high (1,507 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 51.4 (as a target) + 50% × 61.4 (as a cause) = 56.4
Reported cyber attacks against institutions and foreign disinformation
Social media monitoring, government disinformation, AI surveillance, spyware, internet shutdowns
What protects
Government access to personal data (V-Dem, expert scale)21
Rule of law (0-100 score)68
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law100
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
Rules on AI used by the state (GIRAI)27
Shown alongside, not subtracted from the exposure
What we cannot see
We count reported cyber attacks, not all those that happened; there is no worldwide measure of threats made with AI; for surveillance and spyware the sources stop at 2022-2024.
/What we cannot see
Incidents never reported by the press · reports of serious incidents sent to the authorities and not published · systems registered in the non-public part of the EU database.
/Incidents by period
in the country0
last 6 months
0
6-12 months ago
0
12-24 months ago
+ 1 with only the year
/Reported incidents
1 in 24 months2024
Iranian hackers interrupt TV streaming services with deepfake Gaza news (opens in a new tab)severity: moderate · partly estimated from the textGenerative AI
the source gives only the yearaccording to AIAAIC Repositoryorigin: Iran (Islamic Revolutionary Guards/Cotton Sandstorm) · from the deployer
Also reported by· 5 articles from 5 outlets
/Laws and safeguards
Regulatory quality+1.17
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law+0.54
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability-1.07
2025 · World Bank
AI-specific laws and authorities: coming with new sources.
/In the news
how it worksAI news mentioning the country · 7 Nov – 13 Nov
- 3 charged in scheme to use AI to impersonate CEOs and attorneys to steal $129 million (opens in a new tab)erienewsnow.com · United States · 8 Nov 2026 · and 52 other outlets
- 31C Launches MCP ONE Server: AI Agents Join People and Machines as Users of ODUN.ONE Deep Packet Intelligence (opens in a new tab)nugget.ca · Canada · 9 Nov 2026 · and 10 other outlets
- A US government official, with millions invested in the AI industry, leads the push to allow data centers on public lands (opens in a new tab)willistonherald.com · United States · 8 Nov 2026 · and 8 other outlets
- Cision Report Reveals the Consumer Trends Hidden Between Search, Social, and AI (opens in a new tab)thehindubusinessline.com · India · 9 Nov 2026 · and 2 other outlets
- The UAE Put AI in Every Public School Classroom and Four Myths Spread Faster Than the Curriculum (opens in a new tab)jcnnewswire.com · Japan · 13 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- [Graphic News] S. Korea ranks 12th in global AI adoption (opens in a new tab)koreaherald.com · South Korea · 13 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- Cohere Deepens Commitment to Japan with Sovereign AI Investments and Growing Enterprise Adoption – Thailand Business News (opens in a new tab)thailand-business-news.com · Thailand · 13 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- Emirates NBD, Bridgewise launch AI-powered market insights (opens in a new tab)tradearabia.com · United Arab Emirates · 12 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- Baidu Unveils Latest ERNIE Models Amid Broader Full-Stack AI Lineup, and Debuts Token Exchange to Power Intelligent Organizations (opens in a new tab)prnewswire.com · United States · 12 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- Dubai Chambers signs agreement with University of Toronto to empower family business leaders to harness agentic AI (opens in a new tab)bignewsnetwork.com · United States · 12 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 1,225 in total, at most 132 in one day (6 Nov 2026).
1,225 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 37, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 37, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 37, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 36, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 36, world 36.
Previous years, reconstructed with today's data: 2023 40 · 2024 38 · 2025 31 why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.