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/Country
Brunei Darussalam
49/100
attention index
attention index
Partial: exposure or safeguards are missing
No position in the ranking: exposure or safeguards are missing · methodology v0.6
The country in the five views
- Attention49
- Adoptiondata not available
- Regulation19
- Problems and attacksdata not available
- Opportunitiesdata not available
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents16
2 incidents in the last 24 months · percentile among countries
AI exposuren/anot available
Missing safeguards70
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: +0.96 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: +0.67 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: -0.95 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
65
Exposure to threats
Insufficient data
Media coverage: medium (255 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Reported cyber attacks against institutions and foreign disinformation
Social media monitoring, government disinformation, AI surveillance, spyware, internet shutdowns
What protects
Rule of law (0-100 score)70
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law0
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
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 · for this country there is no data on: AI exposure.
/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 monthsJul 2025
Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Impersonate Brunei Police in 'Real Money Magic' Scam on Social Media (opens in a new tab)severity: moderate · partly estimated from the textGenerative AI
country inferred from the textaccording to AI Incident Database
Also reported by· 1 article from 1 outlet
- Public warned of deepfake scam videos impersonating police officers (opens in a new tab) · borneobulletin.com.bn · 14 Jul 2025
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+0.96
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law+0.67
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability-0.95
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
- Agoda's AI Assistant Brings Travel Planning and Booking into One Conversation (opens in a new tab)aninews.in · India · 10 Nov 2026 · and 33 other outlets
- Symatics unveils new processor architecture designed for faster AI responses (opens in a new tab)manilatimes.net · Philippines · 10 Nov 2026 · and 17 other outlets
- Chimes AI Achieves 2.9x Faster AI Inference with FPT AI Factory (opens in a new tab)aninews.in · India · 10 Nov 2026 · and 16 other outlets
- Global powers head to Asia with trade, AI, security in focus (opens in a new tab)freemalaysiatoday.com · Malaysia · 12 Nov 2026 · and 11 other outlets
- TECH GLOW 2026 Celebrates Technology, Innovation, AI, Research and Diwali at IEM Kolkata (opens in a new tab)webindia123.com · India · 7 Nov 2026 · and 7 other outlets
- 10 billion tokens open-sourced, ten thousand fake birds: AI pseudo-science is 'polluting' the next generation's common sense (opens in a new tab)163.com · China · 12 Nov 2026 · and 2 other outlets
- As AI Reshapes Accounting Jobs, ISCA Partners With All Five Polytechnics and ITE to Prepare Future Talent (opens in a new tab)manilatimes.net · Philippines · 11 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- AI+AR brings South China Sea artifacts to life: Rokid debuts at 11th Bobo Expo-Nanhai Net (opens in a new tab)hinews.cn · China · 13 Nov 2026
- AI, trade, defence: the focus of the Brazilian president's second consecutive trip to ASEAN (opens in a new tab)infomoney.com.br · Brazil · 13 Nov 2026
- Yonsei University and students from 11 countries take part: 252 works shown at Guangzhou AI art exhibition (opens in a new tab)isplus.com · 13 Nov 2026
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 232 in total, at most 42 in one day (10 Nov 2026).
232 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 49, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 49, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 49, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 49, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 49, world 36.
Previous years, reconstructed with today's data: 2023 insufficient data · 2024 insufficient data · 2025 32 why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.