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Jamaica
41/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 70% of countries
#47 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention41
- Adoption · single source25
- Regulation75
- Problems and attacks32
- Opportunities34
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents16
1 incident in the last 24 months · percentile among countries
AI exposure71
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 25.0% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
Missing safeguards46
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: +0.02 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: -0.03 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: +0.59 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
43
Exposure to threats
9
as a target 3 · as a cause 14
Closed, little exposedMedia coverage: medium (49 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 3.3 (as a target) + 50% × 13.6 (as a cause) = 8.5
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)98
Rule of law (0-100 score)58
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law100
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
Rules on AI used by the state (GIRAI)22
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
AI videos spread Hurricane Melissa misinformation (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· 4 articles from 4 outlets
/Laws and safeguards
Regulatory quality+0.02
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law-0.03
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability+0.59
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
- Three neural networks and one guitarist: who put together a working 60-minute setlist (opens in a new tab)ixbt.com · China · 13 Nov 2026
- Project Ponte Uses AI to Help Countries Apply for Climate Finance (opens in a new tab)wri.org · United States · 12 Nov 2026
- Nvidia chips become the top weapon for memes about its CEO: an alleged extramarital affair turns into an AI meme (opens in a new tab)nownews.com · Taiwan · 11 Nov 2026
- 'Correct use' of AI can boost Bahamas economy by $750m (opens in a new tab)tribune242.com · Bahamas · 10 Nov 2026
- Singapore, Australia, Malaysia & India rank among top 15 in Commonwealth youth AI readiness index (opens in a new tab)humanresourcesonline.net · Singapore · 10 Nov 2026
- UWI Says It Does Not Condone Use Of Coat Of Arms In AI-generated Graduation Photos (opens in a new tab)radiojamaicanewsonline.com · 10 Nov 2026
- From AI hype to business growth: International experts to challenge Jamaican CEOs (opens in a new tab)jamaicaobserver.com · Jamaica · 9 Nov 2026
- UWI speaks out against use of Coat of Arms in AI-generated graduation photos (opens in a new tab)jamaica-gleaner.com · Jamaica · 9 Nov 2026
- Video analysis of the growing interior dominance of a player of the Hiroshima Dragonflies (opens in a new tab)chugoku-np.co.jp · Japan · 9 Nov 2026
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 43 in total, at most 4 in one day (21 Oct 2026).
43 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 41, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 41, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 41, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 41, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 41, world 36.
Previous years, reconstructed with today's data: 2023 insufficient data · 2024 insufficient data · 2025 33 why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.