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/Country
Uruguay
30/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 34% of countries
#103 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention30
- Adoption · single source26
- Regulation91
- Problems and attacks27
- Opportunities46
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents9
1 incident in the last 24 months · percentile among countries
AI exposure73
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 25.7% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
Missing safeguards16
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: +0.55 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: +0.94 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: +1.21 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
81
Exposure to threats
17
as a target 21 · as a cause 14
Open, little exposedMedia coverage: high (413 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 20.8 (as a target) + 50% × 13.5 (as a cause) = 17.2
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)98
Rule of law (0-100 score)74
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law100
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
Rules on AI used by the state (GIRAI)70
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
1
12-24 months ago
/Reported incidents
1 in 24 monthsDec 2024
Alleged deepfake of a celebrity used to scam Uruguayans in fake investment scheme (opens in a new tab)Generative AI
country inferred from the textaccording to AI Incident Database
Also reported by· 4 articles from 4 outlets
- UTE advierte por video fraudulento que invita a invertir con imágenes y voz de Luis Suárez (opens in a new tab) · montevideo.com.uy · 26 Dec 2024
- Nueva modalidad de estafa utiliza imágen de reconocido futbolista uruguayo para engañar (opens in a new tab) · carasycaretas.com.uy · 27 Dec 2024
- UTE avisó por nueva modalidad de estafa: advierten por circulación de video fraudulento con famoso futbolista uruguayo (opens in a new tab) · elobservador.com.uy · 27 Dec 2024
/Laws and safeguards
Regulatory quality+0.55
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law+0.94
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability+1.21
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
- KI-Chatbots: Wie Sie Ihr Urteilsvermögen vor Einfluss schützen (opens in a new tab)merkur.de · Germany · 11 Nov 2026 · and 12 other outlets
- The head of the Catholic Church urges protection of workers' dignity and ecosystems amid rapid rise of AI (opens in a new tab)webindia123.com · India · 10 Nov 2026 · and 6 other outlets
- 'We are all impacted by AI but nobody's listening' to one another, cardinal warns at conference (opens in a new tab)crossmap.com · United States · 7 Nov 2026 · and 2 other outlets
- The pope and AI (opens in a new tab)elpais.com.uy · Uruguay · 12 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- The pope calls in Uruguay for a "wise use" of AI that puts "the person before the algorithm" (opens in a new tab)europapress.es · Spain · 8 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- The pope urges in Uruguay that school education contribute to the good use of AI (opens in a new tab)bitlysdowssl-aws.com · 8 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- Water, energy and territory for AI data centers (opens in a new tab)servindi.org · Peru · 13 Nov 2026
- Uruguayan delegation travels to Israel to discuss sports, technological innovation and artificial intelligence (opens in a new tab)elpais.com.uy · Uruguay · 13 Nov 2026
- The new advertising agency model facing the impact of artificial intelligence and the country's challenges (opens in a new tab)elpais.com.uy · Uruguay · 13 Nov 2026
- Future energy: AI, batteries and new sources will redesign the sector in the coming years - Negócios (opens in a new tab)verdesmares.com.br · Brazil · 13 Nov 2026
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 381 in total, at most 29 in one day (8 Nov 2026).
381 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 31, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 31, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 31, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 30, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 30, world 36.
Previous years, reconstructed with today's data: 2023 insufficient data · 2024 23 · 2025 21 why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.