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/Country
Mexico
53/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 89% of countries
#17 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention53
- Adoption · single source21
- Regulation70
- Problems and attacks36
- Opportunities40
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents46
5 incidents in the last 24 months · percentile among countries
AI exposure63
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 21.4% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
Missing safeguards52
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: -0.23 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: -1.17 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: -0.28 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
64
Exposure to threats
39
as a target 42 · as a cause 36
Open, little exposedMedia coverage: high (2,237 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 42.1 (as a target) + 50% × 36.3 (as a cause) = 39.2
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)88
Rule of law (0-100 score)39
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law100
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
Rules on AI used by the state (GIRAI)21
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
2
6-12 months ago
0
12-24 months ago
+ 3 with only the year
/Reported incidents
5 in 24 monthsDec 2025
Anthropic's Claude Was Reportedly Jailbroken To Allegedly Help Steal Sensitive Mexican Government Data (opens in a new tab)severity: moderate · partly estimated from the text
country inferred from the textaccording to AI Incident Databaseorigin: United States (Anthropic)AI labs pages: Anthropic
Also reported by· 2 articles from 2 outlets
- Prevention has lost its edge. Resilience is the winning play. (opens in a new tab) · gambit.security · 24 Feb 2026
- Hacker Used Anthropic’s Claude to Steal Mexican Data Trove (opens in a new tab) · bloomberg.com · 25 Feb 2026
Automatic match, not yet confirmed by a person: it could be the same incident.
probably the same
Nov 2025
Purportedly AI-Generated Sexual Images of At Least 400 Minors at Zacatecas School Were Reportedly Created and Sold Online (opens in a new tab)severity: moderate · partly estimated from the textGenerative AI
country inferred from the textaccording to AI Incident Database
Also reported by· 1 article from 1 outlet
- Alumno altera fotos de sus compañeros con IA y crea catálogo de contenido para adultos, lo vendía en internet (opens in a new tab) · heraldodemexico.com.mx · 10 Nov 2025
2025
Chinese influence operation uses ChatGPT to manipulate Latin American public opinion (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· 3 articles from 3 outlets
2025
Hacker used Claude, ChatGPT to steal Mexican government data (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, OpenAI)AI labs pages: Anthropic, OpenAI
Also reported by· 4 articles from 4 outlets
Automatic match, not yet confirmed by a person: it could be the same incident.
probably the same
2024
Microsoft Querétaro AI data centre linked to water shortages, power outages, illnesses (opens in a new tab)severity: moderate · partly estimated from the textGenerative AI
the source gives only the yearaccording to AIAAIC Repositoryorigin: United States (Microsoft)AI labs pages: Microsoft
Also reported by· 2 articles from 2 outlets
/Laws and safeguards
Regulatory quality-0.23
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law-1.17
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability-0.28
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
- Microsoft outage disrupts Outlook, Teams and AI services for over five hours (opens in a new tab)aninews.in · India · 13 Nov 2026 · and 68 other outlets
- Xinhua Headlines: 7th World Media Summit opens in Beijing, highlighting media transformation in AI age (opens in a new tab)heraldglobe.com · United States · 9 Nov 2026 · and 26 other outlets
- Instagram-Altersprüfung: Meta setzt jetzt weltweit auf KI-Technik (opens in a new tab)wa.de · Germany · 10 Nov 2026 · and 16 other outlets
- Flugzeugfriedhof Arizona: Jets für KI und Drohnen (opens in a new tab)wa.de · Germany · 9 Nov 2026 · and 11 other outlets
- A European head of state wants an AI ban wherever it threatens children (opens in a new tab)punchng.com · Nigeria · 10 Nov 2026 · and 5 other outlets
- IA pode ajudar a responder desastres naturais, dizem cientistas ao G20 (opens in a new tab)ebc.com.br · Brazil · 11 Nov 2026 · and 2 other outlets
- IBM Impact Accelerator Brings AI and Quantum to the Future of Learning and Work (opens in a new tab)finanznachrichten.de · Germany · 10 Nov 2026 · and 2 other outlets
- A famous film director defends human judgment in cinema over AI in Mexico (opens in a new tab)lopezdoriga.com · Mexico · 13 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- Democrats' blue wave wins could send AI buildout out of U.S. (opens in a new tab)southernminn.com · United States · 13 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- Despegar integrates Muse, Meta's AI agent, at its launch in Mexico - Almomento | National and international news (opens in a new tab)almomento.mx · Mexico · 13 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 1,968 in total, at most 127 in one day (23 Oct 2026).
1,968 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 53, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 53, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 53, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 53, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 53, world 36.
Previous years, reconstructed with today's data: 2023 insufficient data · 2024 47 · 2025 63 why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.