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/Country
Democratic Republic of the Congo
30/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 32% of countries
#106 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention30
- Adoption · single source9
- Regulation29
- Problems and attacks16
- Opportunities17
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents0
1 incident in the last 24 months · percentile among countries
AI exposure18
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 9.1% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
Missing safeguards82
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: -1.31 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: -1.66 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: -1.20 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
21
Exposure to threats
23
as a target 22 · as a cause 24
Closed, little exposedMedia coverage: low (25 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 21.6 (as a target) + 50% × 23.9 (as a cause) = 22.8
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)31
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law100
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
Rules on AI used by the state (GIRAI)12
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
0
12-24 months ago
+ 1 with only the year
/Reported incidents
1 in 24 monthsLow media coverage: few recorded incidents may also mean little press coverage
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-1.31
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law-1.66
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability-1.20
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
- Foncier : la RDC mise sur l'intelligence artificielle pour rapprocher l'administration des citoyens et combattre la fraude (opens in a new tab)mediacongo.net · Democratic Republic of the Congo · 13 Nov 2026
- Morning Update: The latest threat to AI is human (opens in a new tab)theglobeandmail.com · Canada · 13 Nov 2026
- Doctors push back on an AI company executive's claim AI will end cancer within a decade (opens in a new tab)thenextweb.com · United States · 12 Nov 2026
- University Presses Sign Charter Promising Integrity, Vigilance Over AI (opens in a new tab)publishersweekly.com · United States · 12 Nov 2026
- Anthropic Reveals AI-Related Operation Missed by Journalists in the Democratic Republic of the Congo · Global Voices (opens in a new tab)globalvoices.org · Russia · 12 Nov 2026
- A politician's Pax Silica AI hub deal sparks protests ahead of Philippines trip (opens in a new tab)newsweek.com · United States · 11 Nov 2026
- AI Oversight's Impact on Fashion and Retail: What to Expect (opens in a new tab)wwd.com · United States · 10 Nov 2026
- AllianceBernstein: Emerging-Market Debt: The Next Frontier for AI Disruption (opens in a new tab)finanznachrichten.de · Germany · 9 Nov 2026
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 20 in total, at most 3 in one day (19 Oct 2026).
20 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 30, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 30, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 30, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 30, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 30, world 36.
Previous years, reconstructed with today's data: 2023 insufficient data · 2024 insufficient data · 2025 54 why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.