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/Country
Moldova
34/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 45% of countries
#87 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention34
- Adoption · single source19
- Regulation83
- Problems and attacks41
- Opportunities45
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents17
2 incidents in the last 24 months · percentile among countries
AI exposure59
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 19.1% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
Missing safeguards30
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: -0.05 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: -0.15 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: +0.26 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
76
Exposure to threats
30
as a target 44 · as a cause 16
Open, little exposedMedia coverage: medium (39 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 43.8 (as a target) + 50% × 15.8 (as a cause) = 29.8
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)56
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law100
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
Rules on AI used by the state (GIRAI)39
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
/How the state uses it
how it worksPublic register: it shows how transparent the country is about its systems, not how much it uses them.
1 public AI system in the register
in use1
Main sectors
General public services1
Most recent cases
- mTender in France (opens in a new tab)Ministry of Finance · 2019 · in usePublic procurement reform requires digital systems that increase transparency, reduce administrative friction and create structured data across the full procurement cycle. Moldova’s Ministry of Finance developed mTender with support from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development as an…
/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 monthsSep 2025
Russian Disinformation Campaign Reportedly Used AI-Generated Posts and Videos to Target 2025 Moldovan Parliamentary Elections (opens in a new tab)severity: moderate · partly estimated from the textGenerative AI
country inferred from the textaccording to AI Incident Databaseorigin: Japan, Russia (matryoshka, storm-1516) · from the deployer
Also reported by· 1 article from 1 outlet
- Russia Steps Up Disinformation Efforts as Trump Abandons Resistance (opens in a new tab) · nytimes.com · 7 Sep 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-0.05
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law-0.15
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability+0.26
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
- EU, double summit in Dublin: focus on Ukraine and artificial intelligence (opens in a new tab)sanremonews.it · Italy · 12 Nov 2026 · and 6 other outlets
- AI energy and Ukraine: Italy's prime minister in Dublin for a two-day European summit (opens in a new tab)zazoom.it · Italy · 12 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- DIDWW powers Vocal Agent AI's growth with local phone numbers (opens in a new tab)manilatimes.net · Philippines · 10 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- Nvidia Spy Scandal Threatens the Gulf's AI Ambitions (opens in a new tab)oilprice.com · United States · 13 Nov 2026
- 四大AI分析摩尔多瓦vs哈萨克斯坦：三家支持平局，千问猜主胜 (opens in a new tab)163.com · China · 13 Nov 2026
- EU, double summit in Dublin: Ukraine, artificial intelligence and the future of European security (opens in a new tab)adnkronos.com · Italy · 12 Nov 2026
- Ukraine war and AI among top issues: European leaders meet in Dublin to discuss security and economic challenges (opens in a new tab)kitabat.com · Iraq · 12 Nov 2026
- European leaders meet in Dublin to discuss Ukraine, artificial intelligence and security challenges (opens in a new tab)shorouknews.com · Egypt · 12 Nov 2026
- DIDWW Partners with Vocal Agent AI to Expand AI Voice Communications Across Europe (opens in a new tab)thefastmode.com · India · 11 Nov 2026
- What's up with… Drone detection, AI and super apps, AI voice, Private Networks (opens in a new tab)telecomtv.com · United Kingdom · 11 Nov 2026
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 33 in total, at most 10 in one day (12 Nov 2026).
33 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 34, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 34, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 34, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 34, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 34, world 36.
Previous years, reconstructed with today's data: 2023 35 · 2024 45 · 2025 45 why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.