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/Country
Bahrain
n/anot available/100
attention index
attention index
Insufficient data
Not ranked: data on fewer than 2 of 3 components · methodology v0.6
The country in the five views
- Attentioninsufficient data
- Adoptiondata not available
- Regulation34
- Problems and attacks33
- Opportunitiesdata not available
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents0
no incidents recorded (counts as missing data)
AI exposuren/anot available
Missing safeguards63
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: +1.00 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: +0.18 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: -1.47 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
79
Exposure to threats
45
as a target 51 · as a cause 38
Open, little exposedMedia coverage: medium (255 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 51.1 (as a target) + 50% × 38.3 (as a cause) = 44.7
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)58
Rule of law (0-100 score)62
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law100
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
Rules on AI used by the state (GIRAI)23
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 · for this country there is no data on: AI exposure.
/Incidents by period
in the country0
last 6 months
0
6-12 months ago
0
12-24 months ago
/Reported incidents
0 in 24 monthsNo incidents recorded by the sources in the last 24 months. It does not mean that none happened: it often means little press coverage.
/Laws and safeguards
Regulatory quality+1.00
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law+0.18
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability-1.47
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
- Joint declaration on Paris call for AI safety and security (opens in a new tab)recorder.ca · Canada · 10 Nov 2026 · and 14 other outlets
- A European head of state wants an AI ban wherever it threatens children (opens in a new tab)punchng.com · Nigeria · 10 Nov 2026 · and 5 other outlets
- U.S. military accelerates AI push across Pacific as China tensions grow (opens in a new tab)staradvertiser.com · United States · 9 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- Bapco Energies invests in advanced AI provider (opens in a new tab)oilreviewmiddleeast.com · Saudi Arabia · 13 Nov 2026
- US radar destroyed by Iran? This AI-altered image shows old damage (opens in a new tab)cedarnews.net · Lebanon · 13 Nov 2026
- Institution says AI pushes up inflation before improving efficiency; Reserve Bank of Australia rate cuts to wait until late 2027 (opens in a new tab)cnfol.com · China · 13 Nov 2026
- Bahrain group Lumofy partners with ESQ to drive AI adoption in Indonesia (opens in a new tab)tradearabia.com · United Arab Emirates · 12 Nov 2026
- Brasil fica em 54º lugar em ranking global de inteligência artificial com 70 países; Nvidia lidera entre empresas (opens in a new tab)globo.com · Brazil · 11 Nov 2026
- Bahrain News: Bahrain stresses responsible co-ordination on AI's growth (opens in a new tab)gdnonline.com · United States · 10 Nov 2026
- AI firms sign the French president's Paris Call, but a safety group says it lacks teeth (opens in a new tab)thenextweb.com · United States · 10 Nov 2026
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 224 in total, at most 56 in one day (22 Oct 2026).
224 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
First reading: 18 Oct 2026 · world average 36. The trend appears from the second weekly reading.
Previous years, reconstructed with today's data: 2023 insufficient data · 2024 insufficient data · 2025 insufficient data why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.