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/Country
Nicaragua
37/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 61% of countries
#62 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention37
- Adoption · single source13
- Regulation19
- Problems and attacks20
- Opportunities31
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents0
1 incident in the last 24 months · percentile among countries
AI exposure40
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 12.5% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
Missing safeguards84
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: -0.94 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: -1.59 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: -1.76 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
24
Exposure to threats
25
as a target 25 · as a cause 24
Closed, little exposedMedia coverage: low (30 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 25.2 (as a target) + 50% × 24.1 (as a cause) = 24.7
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)22
Rule of law (0-100 score)32
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law100
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
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 monthsLow media coverage: few recorded incidents may also mean little press coverage
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-0.94
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law-1.59
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability-1.76
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
- OAS warns of risks of artificial intelligence and political violence for the elections (opens in a new tab)eldia.com.do · Dominican Republic · 12 Nov 2026
- China formaliza Organização Mundial de Cooperação em IA (opens in a new tab)uol.com.br · Brazil · 10 Nov 2026
- Cuba Advocates for Equal Access to AI at Media Summit Led by Communist Party's Ideological Leader (opens in a new tab)cubaheadlines.com · Cuba · 10 Nov 2026
- Promover el desarrollo de la inteligencia artificial en beneficio de todos y construir conjuntamente un sistema de gobernanza global más justo y equitativo • PDCC (opens in a new tab)newsinamerica.com · Guatemala · 9 Nov 2026
- CCK lanza servicio para gestionar la reputación de las marcas en la IA • PDCC (opens in a new tab)newsinamerica.com · Guatemala · 8 Nov 2026
- Cumbre Mundial de Medios: Debaten en Beijing el uso mediático de la IA (opens in a new tab)telesurtv.net · United States · 7 Nov 2026
- TeleSUR aboga por soberanía informativa frente a desafíos de la IA (opens in a new tab)prensa-latina.cu · Cuba · 7 Nov 2026
- 开源开放 共建共享|人工智能|互联网大会_网易订阅 (opens in a new tab)163.com · China · 7 Nov 2026
- 开源开放共建共享|人工智能|互联网大会_网易订阅 (opens in a new tab)163.com · China · 7 Nov 2026
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 24 in total, at most 4 in one day (7 Nov 2026).
24 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 37, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 37, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 37, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 37, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 37, world 36.
Previous years, reconstructed with today's data: 2023 insufficient data · 2024 insufficient data · 2025 55 why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.