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/Country
Costa Rica
35/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 54% of countries
#73 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention35
- Adoption · single source30
- Regulation78
- Problems and attacks8
- Opportunities39
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents0
no incidents recorded (counts as missing data)
AI exposure79
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 29.7% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
Missing safeguards38
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: +0.54 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: +0.60 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: +1.04 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
52
Exposure to threats
16
as a target 22 · as a cause 10
Open, little exposedMedia coverage: medium (62 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 21.6 (as a target) + 50% × 10.4 (as a cause) = 16
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)91
Rule of law (0-100 score)69
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law100
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
Rules on AI used by the state (GIRAI)53
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.
/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+0.54
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law+0.60
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability+1.04
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
- Co-operative AI: A co-operative vision for a fairer, more inclusive and democratic Artificial Intelligence (opens in a new tab)thenews.coop · United Kingdom · 13 Nov 2026
- Data centre & AI boom must not come at cost of environment, say experts at Bharat Summit (opens in a new tab)indiatimes.com · India · 13 Nov 2026
- Fiscalía advierte aumento de estafas por auge de la IA y filtración de datos (opens in a new tab)crhoy.com · United States · 13 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
- Costa Rican AI Firm Begins Operations in El Salvador (opens in a new tab)elfinancierocr.com · United States · 12 Nov 2026
- Best Instant Cameras: Recommended Models and Prices – Inteligencia Artificial y Tecnología: Noticias, Herramientas y Negocios (opens in a new tab)laprensalibre.cr · Costa Rica · 12 Nov 2026
- Best Smart Speakers: Alexa, Google and the Best Smart Speakers – Inteligencia Artificial y Tecnología: Noticias, Herramientas y Negocios (opens in a new tab)laprensalibre.cr · Costa Rica · 12 Nov 2026
- Best portable SSDs: models, prices and which to buy – Artificial Intelligence and Technology: News, Tools and Business (opens in a new tab)laprensalibre.cr · Costa Rica · 12 Nov 2026
- Multinational opens AI services center and projects 30 jobs in 2027 (opens in a new tab)crhoy.com · United States · 12 Nov 2026
- OpenAI expands ChatGPT Ads reach to Cyprus in 44-country Aleph deal (opens in a new tab)cyprus-mail.com · Cyprus · 12 Nov 2026
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 57 in total, at most 10 in one day (23 Oct 2026).
57 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 35, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 35, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 35, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 35, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 35, world 36.
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.