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/Country
Sierra Leone
35/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 54% of countries
#73 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention35
- Adoption · single source10
- Regulation33
- Problems and attacks11
- Opportunities17
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents1
1 incident in the last 24 months · percentile among countries
AI exposure27
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 10.4% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
Missing safeguards88
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: -1.10 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: -0.84 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: -0.47 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
24
Exposure to threats
13
as a target 7 · as a cause 20
Closed, little exposedMedia coverage: low (35 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 7.2 (as a target) + 50% × 19.6 (as a cause) = 13.4
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)96
Rule of law (0-100 score)45
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law0
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
Rules on AI used by the state (GIRAI)17
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 monthsLow media coverage: few recorded incidents may also mean little press coverage
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-1.10
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law-0.84
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability-0.47
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 Best AI in Education Ministries Is a 1962 Matching Algorithm (opens in a new tab)ictworks.org · United States · 12 Nov 2026
- APEC會場旁的「AI防蚊哨兵」 - 香港商報 (opens in a new tab)hkcd.com · China · 11 Nov 2026
- The president of Sierra Leone calls for stronger global cooperation on frontier AI security and greater African voice in global governance (opens in a new tab)statehouse.gov.sl · Sierra Leone · 10 Nov 2026
- The president of a European country pushes for stricter oversight of AI (opens in a new tab)albayan.ae · United Arab Emirates · 10 Nov 2026
- A political leader pushes for tighter AI oversight due to security risks (opens in a new tab)shorouknews.com · Egypt · 10 Nov 2026
- A political leader launches an international push to impose strict controls on AI technologies (opens in a new tab)alquds.com · Israel · 10 Nov 2026
- 四骇科技病媒防制物理 AI 的业务、产品与项目全景｜四骇科技保障深圳 APEC (opens in a new tab)qianlong.com · China · 9 Nov 2026
- The role of AI in disaster response | The Manila Times (opens in a new tab)manilatimes.net · Philippines · 7 Nov 2026
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 31 in total, at most 6 in one day (3 Nov 2026).
31 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 36, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 36, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 36, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 35, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 35, world 36.
Previous years, reconstructed with today's data: 2023 insufficient data · 2024 53 · 2025 51 why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.