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/Country
Malawi
31/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 35% of countries
#102 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention31
- Adoption · single source11
- Regulation43
- Problems and attacks9
- Opportunities16
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents0
1 incident in the last 24 months · percentile among countries
AI exposure36
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 11.4% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
Missing safeguards67
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: -0.59 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: -0.14 (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
18
Exposure to threats
12
as a target 12 · as a cause 13
Closed, little exposedMedia coverage: medium (48 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 11.5 (as a target) + 50% × 13.1 (as a cause) = 12.3
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)87
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)12
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-0.59
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law-0.14
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
- Will Uganda's youth power the AI economy, or be left behind by it? (opens in a new tab)independent.co.ug · Uganda · 13 Nov 2026
- Botswana's AI Paradox: Rich in Connectivity, Poor in Opportunity (opens in a new tab)weekendpost.co.bw · Botswana · 10 Nov 2026
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 47 in total, at most 26 in one day (5 Nov 2026).
47 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 31, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 31, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 31, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 31, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 31, world 36.
Previous years, reconstructed with today's data: 2023 insufficient data · 2024 insufficient data · 2025 35 why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.