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/Country
Papua New Guinea
37/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 60% of countries
#63 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention37
- Adoption · single source8
- Regulation27
- Problems and attacks35
- Opportunities26
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents26
2 incidents in the last 24 months · percentile among countries
AI exposure5
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 7.6% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
Missing safeguards83
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: -0.61 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: -0.57 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: -0.24 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
44
Exposure to threats
12
as a target 9 · as a cause 15
Closed, little exposedMedia coverage: low (14 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 8.8 (as a target) + 50% × 15.2 (as a cause) = 12
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)69
Rule of law (0-100 score)49
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law0
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.
/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 country1
last 6 months
0
6-12 months ago
1
12-24 months ago
/Reported incidents
2 in 24 monthsLow media coverage: few recorded incidents may also mean little press coverage
Jul 2026
Scammers Reportedly Used AI Images of Former Papua New Guinea Television Host in Sexualized Posts and Fake Giveaways (opens in a new tab)severity: minor · partly estimated from the textGenerative AI
country inferred from the textaccording to AI Incident Database
Also reported by· 1 article from 1 outlet
- Papua New Guinea moves to outlaw AI deepfakes as victims call for more protection (opens in a new tab) · abc.net.au · 21 Jul 2026
Apr 2025
Purported deepfake depicts altercation between the president of the autonomous Bougainville region and the prime minister of Papua New Guinea (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
- President Toroama Condemns AI Video (opens in a new tab) · abg.gov.pg · 7 Apr 2025
/Laws and safeguards
Regulatory quality-0.61
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law-0.57
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability-0.24
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
- the old fairy tales as re-told by artificial intelligence.... (opens in a new tab)yourdemocracy.net.au · Australia · 7 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- University Presses Sign Charter Promising Integrity, Vigilance Over AI (opens in a new tab)publishersweekly.com · United States · 12 Nov 2026
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 13 in total, at most 3 in one day (6 Nov 2026).
13 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 47 why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.