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/Country
Ecuador
43/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 75% of countries
#40 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention43
- Adoption · single source20
- Regulation62
- Problems and attacks42
- Opportunities40
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents16
1 incident in the last 24 months · percentile among countries
AI exposure62
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 20.3% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
Missing safeguards60
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: -0.71 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: -1.03 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: -0.08 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
73
Exposure to threats
31
as a target 34 · as a cause 28
Open, little exposedMedia coverage: medium (190 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 34.3 (as a target) + 50% × 28.3 (as a cause) = 31.3
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)75
Rule of law (0-100 score)42
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law100
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
Rules on AI used by the state (GIRAI)25
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
Chinese influence operation uses ChatGPT to manipulate Latin American public opinion (opens in a new tab)severity: moderate · partly estimated from the textGenerative AI
the source gives only the yearaccording to AIAAIC Repositoryorigin: United States (OpenAI)AI labs pages: OpenAI
Also reported by· 3 articles from 3 outlets
/Laws and safeguards
Regulatory quality-0.71
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law-1.03
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability-0.08
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
- AI trained on ten million synthetic Earths outperforms conventional copper estimates at TSXV-listed ATEX's Valeriano project (opens in a new tab)prnewswire.com · United States · 11 Nov 2026 · and 7 other outlets
- Valdivia: USS abre este miércoles 11 de noviembre el evento IA + Sostenibilidad para pymes (opens in a new tab)diariolaguino.cl · Chile · 10 Nov 2026 · and 2 other outlets
- La Unión recibe este jueves 12 de noviembre la segunda jornada del evento IA + Sostenibilidad de la USS (opens in a new tab)diariofutrono.cl · Chile · 11 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- Pymes de Los Ríos pueden inscribirse hasta el martes 10 de noviembre en evento IA + Sostenibilidad de la USS (opens in a new tab)diariolaguino.cl · Chile · 9 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- 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
- Santo Domingo to gather experts from 14 countries on communication and AI (opens in a new tab)diariodigitalrd.com · 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
- ChatGPT announces news that will impact businesses and users in Costa Rica (opens in a new tab)elfinancierocr.com · United States · 12 Nov 2026
- Experts from 14 Countries to Debate Communication and Artificial Intelligence in Santo Domingo (opens in a new tab)elnacional.com.do · Dominican Republic · 12 Nov 2026
- Ibioleón takes science to the streets and classrooms with AI, health and experiments (opens in a new tab)diariodeleon.es · Spain · 12 Nov 2026
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 162 in total, at most 15 in one day (15 Oct 2026).
162 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 43, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 43, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 43, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 43, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 43, world 36.
Previous years, reconstructed with today's data: 2023 insufficient data · 2024 insufficient data · 2025 50 why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.