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/Country
Sri Lanka
26/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 14% of countries
#135 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention26
- Adoption · single source8
- Regulation43
- Problems and attacks38
- Opportunities37
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents11
2 incidents in the last 24 months · percentile among countries
AI exposure5
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 7.6% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
Missing safeguards65
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: -0.30 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: -0.21 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: +0.01 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
49
Exposure to threats
26
as a target 25 · as a cause 27
Closed, little exposedMedia coverage: high (622 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 25 (as a target) + 50% × 27 (as a cause) = 26
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)76
Rule of law (0-100 score)55
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law100
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
Rules on AI used by the state (GIRAI)28
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
1
12-24 months ago
+ 1 with only the year
/Reported incidents
2 in 24 monthsJun 2025
Purported deepfake of a president of Sri Lanka promotes an alleged fraudulent government investment scheme (opens in a new tab)Generative AI
country inferred from the textaccording to AI Incident Database
Also reported by· 1 article from 1 outlet
- Viral AI-Generated Video Falsely Claims President Anura Endorsed Investment Plan (opens in a new tab) · srilanka.factcrescendo.com · 19 Jun 2025
2025
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-0.30
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law-0.21
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability+0.01
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
- A member of India's BJP alleges an 'AI book scam' and questions the state government over law and order (opens in a new tab)aninews.in · India · 11 Nov 2026 · and 13 other outlets
- 台灣尤努斯基金會11週年論壇 共探AI永續新局 (opens in a new tab)yam.com · Taiwan · 11 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- The next big bets of an executive: AI, cloud, space telecom and a billion Airtel users (opens in a new tab)indiatimes.com · India · 13 Nov 2026
- Nov 13 finance digest: Nvidia leadership change fuels AI worries; US president dashes Iran deal hopes; gold at yearly low (opens in a new tab)cnfol.com · China · 13 Nov 2026
- Nov 13 finance digest: Nvidia leadership change fuels AI worries; US president dashes Iran deal hopes; gold at yearly low (opens in a new tab)cnfol.com · China · 13 Nov 2026
- Lessons from a well-known AI expert: from corporate governance to crisis management (opens in a new tab)wenxuecity.com · China · 13 Nov 2026
- Chip company executive's resignation: timeline of the private affair, political pressure and outlook (opens in a new tab)163.com · China · 13 Nov 2026
- In the AI era, how can Chinese classics be better passed on and popularized? (opens in a new tab)sina.com.cn · China · 13 Nov 2026
- I challenged ChatGPT and Gemini to find NYC's best eats under $100 — here's the winner (and how to try it in your city) (opens in a new tab)tomsguide.com · United States · 13 Nov 2026
- SpaceX spends $74 billion on an AI campus; revenue already exceeds rockets (opens in a new tab)wenxuecity.com · China · 13 Nov 2026
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 554 in total, at most 58 in one day (16 Oct 2026).
554 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 26, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 26, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 26, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 26, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 26, world 36.
Previous years, reconstructed with today's data: 2023 insufficient data · 2024 insufficient data · 2025 39 why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.