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/Country
Somalia
29/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 23% of countries
#121 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention29
- Adoption · single source8
- Regulation20
- Problems and attacks17
- Opportunities18
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents0
no incidents recorded (counts as missing data)
AI exposure10
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 8.0% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
Missing safeguards85
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: -1.70 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: -2.17 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: -1.59 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
12
Exposure to threats
19
as a target 24 · as a cause 14
Closed, little exposedMedia coverage: medium (80 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 24.2 (as a target) + 50% × 14.3 (as a cause) = 19.3
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)39
Rule of law (0-100 score)23
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law100
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
Rules on AI used by the state (GIRAI)8
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
/Reported incidents
0 in 24 monthsNo incidents recorded by the sources in the last 24 months. It does not mean that none happened: it often means little press coverage.
/Laws and safeguards
Regulatory quality-1.70
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law-2.17
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability-1.59
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
- Xinhua Headlines: 7th World Media Summit opens in Beijing, highlighting media transformation in AI age (opens in a new tab)heraldglobe.com · United States · 9 Nov 2026 · and 26 other outlets
- Inauguran VII Cumbre Mundial de Medios de Comunicación en Beijing y destaca la transformación de medios en era de IA (opens in a new tab)xinhuanet.com · China · 9 Nov 2026 · and 5 other outlets
- Le 7e Sommet mondial des médias s'ouvre à Beijing, mettant en lumière la transformation des médias à l'ère de l'IA - Xinhua (opens in a new tab)xinhuanet.com · China · 9 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- 2nd LD-Writethru-Xinhua Headlines: 7th World Media Summit opens in Beijing, highlighting media transformation in AI age (opens in a new tab)bignewsnetwork.com · United States · 7 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- Project Ponte Uses AI to Help Countries Apply for Climate Finance (opens in a new tab)wri.org · United States · 12 Nov 2026
- 第一个被AI做大的国家，现在怎么样了？- DoNews专栏 (opens in a new tab)donews.com · China · 10 Nov 2026
- 韩国，第一个被AI做大的国家 (opens in a new tab)news.pedaily.cn · China · 10 Nov 2026
- Somalia: Somali Information Minister Calls for Responsible AI Use in Media At Beijing Summit (opens in a new tab)allafrica.com · Nigeria · 9 Nov 2026
- 第一个被AI做大的国家，现在怎么样了？ (opens in a new tab)163.com · China · 9 Nov 2026
- 7th World Media Summit opens in Beijing, highlighting media transformation in AI age (opens in a new tab)en.people.cn · China · 8 Nov 2026
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 80 in total, at most 23 in one day (7 Nov 2026).
80 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 29, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 29, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 29, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 29, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 29, 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.