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/Country
Pakistan
44/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 78% of countries
#35 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention44
- Adoption · single source12
- Regulation28
- Problems and attacks43
- Opportunities32
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents18
4 incidents in the last 24 months · percentile among countries
AI exposure38
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 11.9% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
Missing safeguards85
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: -0.92 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: -1.07 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: -1.13 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
42
Exposure to threats
69
as a target 67 · as a cause 72
Closed and exposedMedia coverage: high (819 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 66.7 (as a target) + 50% × 71.7 (as a cause) = 69.2
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)76
Rule of law (0-100 score)41
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law50
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
Rules on AI used by the state (GIRAI)48
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
- White House appears to use AI to calculate tariff rates (in the incident list of this card)2025
- India accused of using AI to create Pahalgam attack suspects’ sketches (in the incident list of this card)2025
- Researchers uncover covert AI-powered pro-India influence network (in the incident list of this card)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 country0
last 6 months
0
6-12 months ago
0
12-24 months ago
+ 4 with only the year
/Reported incidents
4 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
India accused of using AI to create Pahalgam attack suspects’ sketches (opens in a new tab)severity: moderate · partly estimated from the textUnspecified AI
the source gives only the yearaccording to AIAAIC Repositoryorigin: India (Government of India) · from the deployer
Also reported by· 3 articles from 3 outlets
2024
Researchers uncover covert AI-powered pro-India influence network (opens in a new tab)severity: moderate · partly estimated from the textUnspecified AI
the source gives only the yearaccording to AIAAIC Repositoryorigin: India (Government of India) · from the deployer
Also reported by· 1 article from 1 outlet
2024
AI search engines promote white supremacism (opens in a new tab)severity: moderate · partly estimated from the textGenerative AI
the source gives only the yearaccording to AIAAIC Repositoryorigin: United States (Google, Microsoft, Perplexity AI)AI labs pages: Google, Microsoft
Also reported by· 5 articles from 5 outlets
/Laws and safeguards
Regulatory quality-0.92
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law-1.07
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability-1.13
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
- Agoda's AI Assistant Brings Travel Planning and Booking into One Conversation (opens in a new tab)aninews.in · India · 10 Nov 2026 · and 33 other outlets
- A member of India's BJP alleges an 'AI book scam' and questions the state government over law and order (opens in a new tab)aninews.in · India · 11 Nov 2026 · and 13 other outlets
- AI trained on ten million synthetic Earths outperforms conventional copper estimates at TSXV-listed ATEX's Valeriano project (opens in a new tab)prnewswire.com · United States · 11 Nov 2026 · and 7 other outlets
- AI can help governments help citizens (opens in a new tab)omanobserver.om · Oman · 12 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- 台灣尤努斯基金會11週年論壇 共探AI永續新局 (opens in a new tab)yam.com · Taiwan · 11 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- 美AI算力期货市场推出遇阻 (opens in a new tab)sina.com.cn · China · 11 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- 不如《牛来》，谁在期待AI电影？ (opens in a new tab)ifeng.com · China · 8 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- 新华鲜报｜世界媒体峰会上，北京亮出AI"新名片"-新华网 (opens in a new tab)xinhuanet.com · China · 8 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- A rush to procure books before elections may have enabled scamsters to push AI-generated fake books into Periyar Library (opens in a new tab)indiatimes.com · India · 13 Nov 2026
- AI manga dramas' most frequently stolen 5 goddess faces! Zhao Liying angrily sues Hongguo, Zhao Lusi's nose mole copied, Yu Shuxin even hit with voice cloning | Lifestyle Entertainment (opens in a new tab)udn.com · Taiwan · 13 Nov 2026
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 728 in total, at most 64 in one day (10 Nov 2026).
728 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 45, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 45, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 45, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 44, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 44, world 36.
Previous years, reconstructed with today's data: 2023 insufficient data · 2024 69 · 2025 69 why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.