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/Country
Taiwan
53/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 90% of countries
#15 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention53
- Adoption · single source34
- Regulation50
- Problems and attacksdata not available
- Opportunities49
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents46
5 incidents in the last 24 months · percentile among countries
AI exposure60
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 33.8% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
AI compute capacity: 1,710 (2026-11) · Epoch AI — GPU Clusters
Missing safeguards57
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: +1.20 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: +1.20 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: +1.05 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
75
Exposure to threats
43
as a target 74 · as a cause 12
Open, little exposedMedia coverage: high (12,820 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 73.5 (as a target) + 50% × 11.6 (as a cause) = 42.6
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)76
Rule of law (0-100 score)78
2025 · World Bank
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.
Examples
Examples, not a count
Incidents where the state uses AI
/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 country2
last 6 months
1
6-12 months ago
1
12-24 months ago
+ 1 with only the year
/Reported incidents
5 in 24 monthsJul 2026
AI-generated voice mimicking Taiwan's president used in political video criticizing government food-safety response. (opens in a new tab)severity: moderate · partly estimated from the textGenerative AI
country inferred from the textaccording to AI Incident Database
Also reported by· 6 articles from 3 outlets
- 《油不得你》疑AI合成賴總統聲音！製作人遭關切 刑事局回應了 (opens in a new tab) · news.tvbs.com.tw · 25 Jul 2026
- AI仿賴清德聲音引爆藍綠交鋒 學者籲建立揭露機制防深偽濫用 (opens in a new tab) · taiwannews.com.tw · 27 Jul 2026
- DPP urges investigation of AI video mimicking Lai (opens in a new tab) · taipeitimes.com · 28 Jul 2026
Jul 2026
Suspected China-Linked Hackers Reportedly Used AI Agents to Compromise Taiwanese Government Systems and Exfiltrate Personnel Records (opens in a new tab)severity: moderate · partly estimated from the textGenerative AI
country inferred from the textaccording to AI Incident Databaseorigin: United States (nous-research)
Also reported by· 4 articles from 4 outlets
- Researchers observe first ‘near-autonomous’ AI attack on government target in Taiwan (opens in a new tab) · cyberscoop.com · 12 Aug 2026
- Inside a Multi-Agent AI Framework Used to Compromise Government Entities in Asia (opens in a new tab) · dreamgroup.com · 12 Aug 2026
- Taiwan says it was targeted last month in AI-driven hacking campaign (opens in a new tab) · reuters.com · 12 Aug 2026
Dec 2025
Purportedly AI-manipulated image reported to falsely depict a Taiwanese politician posing with the PRC flag (opens in a new tab)severity: minor · partly estimated from the textGenerative AI
country inferred from the textaccording to AI Incident Database
Also reported by· 1 article from 1 outlet
- 高嘉瑜赴中和五星旗合照？怒發文澄清：三前提下不會去中國 (opens in a new tab) · nownews.com · 26 Dec 2025
Jan 2025
Hong Kong Authorities Seize HK$34M in Alleged Deepfake Scam Targeting Victims in Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia (opens in a new tab)severity: moderate · partly estimated from the textGenerative AI
country inferred from the textaccording to AI Incident Database
Also reported by· 1 article from 1 outlet
2025
White House appears to use AI to calculate tariff rates (opens in a new tab)severity: moderate · partly estimated from the textGenerative AI
the source gives only the yearaccording to AIAAIC Repositoryorigin: United States (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, xAI)AI labs pages: Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, xAI
Also reported by· 7 articles from 7 outlets
/Laws and safeguards
Regulatory quality+1.20
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law+1.20
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability+1.05
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
- Microsoft outage disrupts Outlook, Teams and AI services for over five hours (opens in a new tab)aninews.in · India · 13 Nov 2026 · and 68 other outlets
- AI demand unlikely to be derailed by Nvidia CEO controversy, Taiwan supply chain sources say (opens in a new tab)webindia123.com · India · 10 Nov 2026 · and 37 other outlets
- 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
- Agoda's AI Assistant Brings Travel Planning and Booking into One Conversation (opens in a new tab)aninews.in · India · 10 Nov 2026 · and 33 other outlets
- US-China AI race could face financial setbacks, mass layoffs over next three years: Report (opens in a new tab)indiatimes.com · India · 10 Nov 2026 · and 23 other outlets
- Symatics unveils new processor architecture designed for faster AI responses (opens in a new tab)manilatimes.net · Philippines · 10 Nov 2026 · and 17 other outlets
- Asian stocks steady as AI, Mideast jitters recede (opens in a new tab)bendigoadvertiser.com.au · Australia · 9 Nov 2026 · and 17 other outlets
- Chimes AI Achieves 2.9x Faster AI Inference with FPT AI Factory (opens in a new tab)aninews.in · India · 10 Nov 2026 · and 16 other outlets
- TSMC to invest up to USD 1 billion in Anthropic, OpenAI (opens in a new tab)aninews.in · India · 11 Nov 2026 · and 9 other outlets
- AI chips: a chip-sector executive's case revives calls in Washington for firmness toward Beijing - 11/11/2026 at 13:22 (opens in a new tab)boursorama.com · France · 11 Nov 2026 · and 9 other outlets
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 11,198 in total, at most 660 in one day (10 Nov 2026).
11,198 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 54, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 54, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 54, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 53, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 53, world 36.
Previous years, reconstructed with today's data: 2023 26 · 2024 26 · 2025 26 why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.