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Botswana

32/100
attention index

Attention higher than 38% of countries

#97 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026

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The country in the five views

Attention32
Adoption · single source15
Regulation48
Problems and attacks11
Opportunities30

/Why this colour

how it is computed

Reported incidents0

1 incident in the last 24 months · percentile among countries

AI exposure49

percentile among countries

Generative AI use in the population: 15.0% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report

Missing safeguards57

100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards

Regulatory quality: +0.35 (2025) · World Bank

Rule of law: +0.28 (2025) · World Bank

Voice and accountability: +0.40 (2025) · World Bank

The state and AI

how it is computed

Not part of the attention index

Openness to AI

Exposure to threats

as a target 11 · as a cause 17

Closed, little exposedMedia coverage: low (15 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)

Why this value

Exposure to threats = 50% × 11.2 (as a target) + 50% × 16.5 (as a cause) = 13.9

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)86

2025 · V-Dem — Digital Society Project

Rule of law (0-100 score)63

2025 · World Bank

Data protection law100

2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker

Rules on AI used by the state (GIRAI)16

2026 · GIRAI — Global Index on Responsible AI

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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

White House appears to use AI to calculate tariff rates (in the incident list of this card)2025

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/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.

Botswana

The country in the five views

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The state and AI

Why this value

What protects

What we cannot see

Examples

Incidents where the state uses AI

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