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/Country
Senegal
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 source14
- Regulation72
- Problems and attacks34
- Opportunities24
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents19
1 incident in the last 24 months · percentile among countries
AI exposure47
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 14.4% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
Missing safeguards45
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: -0.26 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: -0.19 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: +0.16 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
38
Exposure to threats
32
as a target 33 · as a cause 32
Closed, little exposedMedia coverage: medium (225 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 33.3 (as a target) + 50% × 31.5 (as a cause) = 32.4
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)62
Rule of law (0-100 score)55
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law100
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
Rules on AI used by the state (GIRAI)46
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
1
6-12 months ago
0
12-24 months ago
/Reported incidents
1 in 24 monthsFeb 2026
Man in Touba, Senegal, Allegedly Used AI Voice Alteration to Impersonate a Woman and Collect Intimate Images (opens in a new tab)severity: moderate · partly estimated from the textGenerative AI
Also reported by· 1 article from 1 outlet
/Laws and safeguards
Regulatory quality-0.26
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law-0.19
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability+0.16
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
- Artificial intelligence in the workplace: Labour minister calls for a national support framework (opens in a new tab)leral.net · Senegal · 13 Nov 2026
- Senegal: AI's entry into the world of work - a Senegalese figure calls for a national support framework (opens in a new tab)allafrica.com · Nigeria · 13 Nov 2026
- Senegal: a Senegalese figure suggests a framework for anticipating and supporting AI (opens in a new tab)allafrica.com · Nigeria · 13 Nov 2026
- AI in higher education: Toward a national framework to harmonize uses in universities (opens in a new tab)lesoleil.sn · Senegal · 12 Nov 2026
- Kenya's Satlyt Among 10 Startups Joining Google's Applied AI Lab : TechMoran (opens in a new tab)techmoran.com · Kenya · 12 Nov 2026
- Satlyt joins Google Africa Applied AI Lab as one of ten selected startups (opens in a new tab)kenya-today.com · Kenya · 12 Nov 2026
- Senegal: AI in higher education - Towards a national framework to harmonize uses in universities (opens in a new tab)allafrica.com · Nigeria · 12 Nov 2026
- Sex, hate and money: the new AI-made 'influencers' profiting from far-right rhetoric (opens in a new tab)elconfidencial.com · Spain · 12 Nov 2026
- UniFacens adopts Stanford's platform that simulates clinical consultations with AI (opens in a new tab)jornalcruzeiro.com.br · Brazil · 12 Nov 2026
- [ZD SW 투데이] 클라비, 인하대 AI 챗봇 고도화 사업 수주 (opens in a new tab)zdnet.co.kr · South Korea · 10 Nov 2026
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 204 in total, at most 53 in one day (26 Oct 2026).
204 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 35, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 35, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 35, 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 insufficient data · 2025 insufficient data why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.