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/Country
Bangladesh
34/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 49% of countries
#80 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention34
- Adoption · single source8
- Regulation31
- Problems and attacks36
- Opportunities37
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents16
2 incidents in the last 24 months · percentile among countries
AI exposure10
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 8.0% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
Missing safeguards82
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: -0.94 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: -0.91 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: -0.72 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
74
Exposure to threats
49
as a target 40 · as a cause 58
Open, little exposedMedia coverage: high (382 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 40 (as a target) + 50% × 58.4 (as a cause) = 49.2
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)67
Rule of law (0-100 score)44
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law50
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
Rules on AI used by the state (GIRAI)21
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.
Examples
Examples, not a count
Incidents where the state uses AI
/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
1
12-24 months ago
+ 1 with only the year
/Reported incidents
2 in 24 monthsJun 2025
Purported AI-Generated Video Reportedly Depicts Illegal Tiger Sales in Bagerhat, Bangladesh (opens in a new tab)severity: moderate · partly estimated from the text
place: Mosque City of Bagerhatcountry inferred from the textaccording to AI Incident Databaseorigin: United States (Google)AI labs pages: Google
Also reported by· 1 article from 1 outlet
2025
White House appears to use AI to calculate tariff rates (opens in a new tab)severity: moderate · partly estimated from the textGenerative AI
the source gives only the yearaccording to AIAAIC Repositoryorigin: United States (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, xAI)AI labs pages: Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, xAI
Also reported by· 7 articles from 7 outlets
/Laws and safeguards
Regulatory quality-0.94
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law-0.91
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability-0.72
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
- AI is killing cheap labor (opens in a new tab)sina.com.cn · China · 12 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- 高通签约参展明年第十届进博会，携产业伙伴续写6G+AI新篇章 (opens in a new tab)sina.com.cn · China · 10 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- 狂欢的AI，把手机芯片厂拖入寒冬 (opens in a new tab)163.com · China · 7 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- The next big bets of an executive: AI, cloud, space telecom and a billion Airtel users (opens in a new tab)indiatimes.com · India · 13 Nov 2026
- Anthropic推出Claude Meetings，可加入Google Meet参与会议 (opens in a new tab)chinaz.com · China · 13 Nov 2026
- Samsung and Google unveil AI smart glasses, officially on sale December 10 (opens in a new tab)chinaz.com · China · 13 Nov 2026
- According to an astrology piece, the CEO of a chipmaker that built an AI empire is at risk due to zodiac traits tied to romance (opens in a new tab)chinatimes.com · Taiwan · 13 Nov 2026
- AI is killing cheap labor - Huxiu (opens in a new tab)huxiu.com · China · 12 Nov 2026
- Aleph Group, Inc: OpenAI increases its ChatGPT Ads presence in 44 countries through an exclusive reseller partnership with Aleph (opens in a new tab)finanznachrichten.de · Germany · 12 Nov 2026
- Can India turn its sovereign AI ambitions into reality? - Shafaqna English | International Shia News & Fatwas (opens in a new tab)shafaqna.com · Saudi Arabia · 12 Nov 2026
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 358 in total, at most 56 in one day (16 Oct 2026).
358 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 34, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 34, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 34, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 34, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 34, world 36.
Previous years, reconstructed with today's data: 2023 54 · 2024 52 · 2025 54 why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.