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/Country
Algeria
36/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 58% of countries
#66 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention36
- Adoption · single source14
- Regulation32
- Problems and attacks24
- Opportunities40
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents0
1 incident in the last 24 months · percentile among countries
AI exposure45
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 13.8% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
Missing safeguards76
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: -0.79 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: -0.65 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: -1.09 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
36
Exposure to threats
38
as a target 35 · as a cause 41
Closed, little exposedMedia coverage: medium (119 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 35.1 (as a target) + 50% × 40.6 (as a cause) = 37.9
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)51
Rule of law (0-100 score)48
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 months2025
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-0.79
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law-0.65
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability-1.09
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
- TEMOIGNAGES. "Faire du travail dégradé, c'est dégradant" : quand l'intelligence artificielle transforme les graphistes en simples correcteurs (opens in a new tab)radiofrance.fr · France · 8 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- "AI glasses cheating: the last bulwark"… need to block wireless communications at exam venues rises sharply (opens in a new tab)fnnews.com · South Korea · 13 Nov 2026
- AI: a person brings Muslim history back to life (opens in a new tab)oumma.com · France · 13 Nov 2026
- AI-Link, former Petrolifera, in pole position. Community calls for remediation, jobs and adequate returns (opens in a new tab)lanazione.it · Italy · 12 Nov 2026
- Civil service: 'with AI, 300,000 jobs can be saved', claims a French politician (opens in a new tab)capital.fr · France · 12 Nov 2026
- Generative AI at work: what the diaspora can pass on to Algerian teams (opens in a new tab)lesafriques.com · Morocco · 12 Nov 2026
- Presidential race: a French politician wants to "save 300,000 jobs" in the civil service thanks to AI (opens in a new tab)radiofrance.fr · France · 12 Nov 2026
- Presidential race: a French politician wants to "save 300,000 jobs" in the civil service thanks to artificial intelligence (opens in a new tab)franceinfo.fr · France · 12 Nov 2026
- Intelligence Artificielle : L'Algérie s'allie à la Chine pour un projet de data center spécialisé (opens in a new tab)afriqueitnews.com · Senegal · 11 Nov 2026
- AI-Link, Health and Environment list: "Proposal by one person for the conversion station? First environmental and health checks, then decisions" (opens in a new tab)cittadellaspezia.com · Italy · 10 Nov 2026
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 108 in total, at most 13 in one day (15 Oct 2026).
108 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 36, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 36, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 36, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 36, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 36, world 36.
Previous years, reconstructed with today's data: 2023 insufficient data · 2024 insufficient data · 2025 46 why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.