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/Country
Myanmar
44/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 78% of countries
#34 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention44
- Adoption · single source10
- Regulation14
- Problems and attacks40
- Opportunities29
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents16
2 incidents in the last 24 months · percentile among countries
AI exposure27
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 10.4% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
Missing safeguards98
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: -1.46 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: -1.77 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: -2.09 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
19
Exposure to threats
58
as a target 27 · as a cause 89
Closed and exposedMedia coverage: medium (38 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 26.6 (as a target) + 50% × 89.4 (as a cause) = 58
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)52
Rule of law (0-100 score)29
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law0
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
Rules on AI used by the state (GIRAI)10
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
+ 2 with only the year
/Where the systems come from
how we knowUnited States2
China1
developers' headquarters · 2 incidents of 2
/Reported incidents
2 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
2025
Fake AI videos amplify Myanmar earthquake disinformation (opens in a new tab)severity: moderate · partly estimated from the textGenerative AI
the source gives only the yearaccording to AIAAIC Repositoryorigin: China, United States (MiniMax, Runway)AI labs pages: MiniMax
Also reported by· 3 articles from 3 outlets
/Laws and safeguards
Regulatory quality-1.46
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law-1.77
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability-2.09
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 Opens New Prospects for Tropical Agriculture and Regional Cooperation (opens in a new tab)people.com.cn · China · 13 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- [Questions that will change the world] ④ Physical AI: the reality of robots that learn on their own (opens in a new tab)dongascience.com · South Korea · 13 Nov 2026
- Usar inteligencia artificial sale más caro si no hablas inglés, según un nuevo estudio | Ciencia y Tecnología (opens in a new tab)biobiochile.cl · Chile · 9 Nov 2026
- Искусственный интеллект расходует больше ресурсов, если вы общаетесь с ним не на английском языке (opens in a new tab)24tv.ua · Ukraine · 9 Nov 2026
- 深夜,大反攻,AI算力巨头暴涨20%!"两枚导弹击中伊朗最大岛屿"!一周以来第三波,欧洲多国客机再遭炸弹威胁 _ 东方财富网 (opens in a new tab)eastmoney.com · China · 7 Nov 2026
- 深夜,大反攻,AI算力巨头暴涨20%!"两枚导弹击中伊朗最大岛屿"!一周以来第三波,欧洲多国客机再遭炸弹威胁-美股-金融界 (opens in a new tab)jrj.com.cn · China · 7 Nov 2026
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 33 in total, at most 6 in one day (5 Nov 2026).
33 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 44, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 44, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 44, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 44, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 44, world 36.
Previous years, reconstructed with today's data: 2023 66 · 2024 insufficient data · 2025 66 why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.