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/Country
Iraq
40/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 68% of countries
#50 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention40
- Adoption · single source13
- Regulation19
- Problems and attacks29
- Opportunities39
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents0
1 incident in the last 24 months · percentile among countries
AI exposure42
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 13.0% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
Missing safeguards92
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: -1.01 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: -1.39 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: -0.82 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
18
Exposure to threats
49
as a target 44 · as a cause 53
Closed, little exposedMedia coverage: high (499 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 44.1 (as a target) + 50% × 52.9 (as a cause) = 48.5
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)63
Rule of law (0-100 score)36
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law0
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
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-1.01
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law-1.39
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability-0.82
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
- Veterans tour Washington war memorials using AI glasses (opens in a new tab)kold.com · United States · 11 Nov 2026 · and 2 other outlets
- AI「讀心術」成真？當科幻場景走進實驗室 (opens in a new tab)scdaily.com · China · 13 Nov 2026
- How AI, younger recruits, and evolving warfare are reshaping world terrorism (opens in a new tab)jpost.com · Israel · 13 Nov 2026
- An AI safety advocate weighs a White House run in 2028 (opens in a new tab)thenews.com.pk · Pakistan · 13 Nov 2026
- Filming of "AI有情人" approved: registered company Fujian Wuxian Zizai Culture Media has 0 insured employees, film synopsis revealed (opens in a new tab)sina.com.cn · China · 13 Nov 2026
- A politician: «We are heading toward a new world war fought with AI» (opens in a new tab)corriere.it · Italy · 13 Nov 2026
- Universities to expand cooperation through joint AI degree (opens in a new tab)universityworldnews.com · United States · 13 Nov 2026
- A professor at Peking University: AI limits, the future of humanity and the meaning of mathematics (opens in a new tab)163.com · China · 13 Nov 2026
- 微软Outlook、Teams和Copilot服务故障持续第二天，银行交易结算受阻 (opens in a new tab)ifeng.com · China · 13 Nov 2026
- 港股收盘 | 恒生科技指数单周大跌6.5% 英伟达突发换帅重创AI算力链 (opens in a new tab)sina.com.cn · China · 13 Nov 2026
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 425 in total, at most 29 in one day (4 Nov 2026).
425 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 40, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 40, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 40, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 40, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 40, 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.