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/Country
Saudi Arabia
40/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 66% of countries
#53 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention40
- Adoption · single source31
- Regulation53
- Problems and attacks39
- Opportunities48
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents1
1 incident in the last 24 months · percentile among countries
AI exposure79
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 31.4% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
AI compute capacity: 8,391 (2026-11) · Epoch AI — GPU Clusters
Missing safeguards51
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: +0.67 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: +0.27 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: -1.73 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
85
Exposure to threats
56
as a target 42 · as a cause 70
Open and exposedMedia coverage: high (2,724 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 42.1 (as a target) + 50% × 70.1 (as a cause) = 56.1
Reported cyber attacks against institutions and foreign disinformation
Social media monitoring, government disinformation, AI surveillance, spyware, internet shutdowns
What protects
Rule of law (0-100 score)63
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law100
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
Rules on AI used by the state (GIRAI)22
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 country0
last 6 months
0
6-12 months ago
0
12-24 months ago
+ 1 with only the year
/Reported incidents
1 in 24 months2024
Male Saudi robot touches female reporter (opens in a new tab)severity: minor · partly estimated from the textAutonomous vehicles and robotics
the source gives only the yearaccording to AIAAIC Repository
/Laws and safeguards
Regulatory quality+0.67
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law+0.27
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability-1.73
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
- Democrats demand answers on the US government's AI policy amid alleged Chinese spy plot targeting the CEO of Nvidia (opens in a new tab)aninews.in · India · 12 Nov 2026 · and 34 other outlets
- IA, Wmf: investitori founder ed esperti da tutto il mondo a confronto nella Silicon Valley (opens in a new tab)adnkronos.com · Italy · 12 Nov 2026 · and 6 other outlets
- COP31 to open in Turkey, with climate goals under pressure from war and AI (opens in a new tab)internazionale.it · Italy · 9 Nov 2026 · and 4 other outlets
- HUMAIN Partners with VUZ to Advance a New Generation of Immersive AI Streaming and Learning by Launching HUMAIN Plus (opens in a new tab)prnewswire.com · United States · 11 Nov 2026 · and 3 other outlets
- Public funds ploughing cash into AI will 'own' megatrends shaping economy (opens in a new tab)aol.com · United States · 12 Nov 2026 · and 2 other outlets
- IBM Digital Sovereignty Index: In the AI Era, Control Is No Longer Enough. Enterprises Must Prove it. (opens in a new tab)finanznachrichten.de · Germany · 11 Nov 2026 · and 2 other outlets
- CassTime Unveils AI-Driven "T+D Solution" to Tackle Data and Repair Bottlenecks in the Global Automotive Aftermarket (opens in a new tab)prnewswire.com · United States · 7 Nov 2026 · and 2 other outlets
- A tech founder: ByteDance's AI could catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic in 2029-2030 (opens in a new tab)nbd.com.cn · China · 13 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- Air India, AI Express Extends Flight Cancellations To Saudi Arabia (opens in a new tab)deccanchronicle.com · India · 13 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- 美国人正在反抗，用史无前例的行动抵制AI。 (opens in a new tab)163.com · China · 9 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 2,022 in total, at most 240 in one day (19 Oct 2026).
2,022 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 40, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 40, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 40, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 40, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 40, world 36.
Previous years, reconstructed with today's data: 2023 insufficient data · 2024 38 · 2025 36 why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.