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/Country
Turkmenistan
26/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 16% of countries
#132 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention26
- Adoption · single source6
- Regulation19
- Problems and attacks19
- Opportunities30
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents0
no incidents recorded (counts as missing data)
AI exposure1
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 6.3% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
Missing safeguards86
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: -1.88 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: -1.42 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: -2.01 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
14
Exposure to threats
37
as a target 23 · as a cause 51
Closed, little exposedMedia coverage: medium (36 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 23.4 (as a target) + 50% × 51.1 (as a cause) = 37.3
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)25
Rule of law (0-100 score)35
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law100
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
Rules on AI used by the state (GIRAI)7
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-1.88
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law-1.42
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability-2.01
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
- An Uzbek politician: Central Asia and Azerbaijan could become a center for industrial AI (opens in a new tab)vesti.az · Azerbaijan · 13 Nov 2026
- Gangdong-gu Public Health Center shares best practices in AI and digital health management with four Central Asian countries (opens in a new tab)heraldcorp.com · South Korea · 13 Nov 2026
- "Hanqiao" AI agent supports Chinese-language teaching with "personalized learning for every student" - China Overseas Chinese Network (opens in a new tab)chinaqw.com · China · 13 Nov 2026
- CIPC promotes scholar's article on advancing mutual learning among civilizations through education and AI cooperation | Press Releases (opens in a new tab)floydct.com · United States · 11 Nov 2026
- ИИ - автопилот, журналист - водитель: О чем говорили на Медиафоруме СНГ (opens in a new tab)rg.ru · Russia · 11 Nov 2026
- Aqaba Process Summit in Astana: AI and Security - News Central Asia (nCa) (opens in a new tab)newscentralasia.net · Turkmenistan · 9 Nov 2026
- Central Asia Confronts Growing Threat of AI-Enabled Extremism (opens in a new tab)oilprice.com · United States · 9 Nov 2026
- Kazakhstan Turns Its Dual AI Partnerships Into Regional Security Agenda (opens in a new tab)astanatimes.com · Kazakhstan · 9 Nov 2026
- Акабский процесс в Астане: как Центральная Азия отвечает на вызовы искусственного интеллекта (opens in a new tab)stanradar.com · Kyrgyzstan · 9 Nov 2026
- Саммит Акабского процесса в Астане: искусственный интеллект и безопасность (opens in a new tab)newscentralasia.net · Turkmenistan · 9 Nov 2026
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 32 in total, at most 7 in one day (6 Nov 2026).
32 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 26, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 26, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 26, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 26, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 26, 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.