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/Country
Venezuela
50/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 87% of countries
#20 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention50
- Adoption · single source11
- Regulation15
- Problems and attacks54
- Opportunities43
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents25
2 incidents in the last 24 months · percentile among countries
AI exposure33
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 11.3% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
Missing safeguards99
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: -1.99 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: -2.20 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: -1.75 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
28
Exposure to threats
53
as a target 54 · as a cause 53
Closed and exposedMedia coverage: high (389 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 53.9 (as a target) + 50% × 52.7 (as a cause) = 53.3
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)51
Rule of law (0-100 score)22
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law0
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
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 country0
last 6 months
0
6-12 months ago
0
12-24 months ago
+ 2 with only the year
/Reported incidents
2 in 24 months2026
Pentagon uses Anthropic's Claude to capture the Venezuelan president (opens in a new tab)severity: serious · partly estimated from the textGenerative AI
the source gives only the yearaccording to AIAAIC Repositoryorigin: United States (Anthropic)AI labs pages: Anthropic
Also reported by· 3 articles from 3 outlets
- axios.com (opens in a new tab) · 13 Feb 2026
- reuters.com (opens in a new tab) · 24 Feb 2026
- wsj.com (opens in a new tab)
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-1.99
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law-2.20
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability-1.75
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
- Condenan a un menor por desnudar con IA a catorce compañeras y difundirlo por redes sociales en Valencia (opens in a new tab)diariovasco.com · Spain · 10 Nov 2026 · and 8 other outlets
- A senior government official arrives in France for G7 meeting; calls for UN accountability and AI innovation (opens in a new tab)aninews.in · India · 10 Nov 2026 · and 7 other outlets
- IA pode ajudar a responder desastres naturais, dizem cientistas ao G20 (opens in a new tab)ebc.com.br · Brazil · 11 Nov 2026 · and 2 other outlets
- Caracas to host the third edition of the AI TechDay (opens in a new tab)ultimasnoticias.com.ve · Venezuela · 13 Nov 2026
- A former hacker: "Artificial intelligence greatly facilitates cyberattacks. Defenses? Europe is at year zero" (opens in a new tab)elmundo.es · Spain · 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
- Grupo Tirant strengthens its technology bet with the acquisition of Chilean legal AI startup elDigesto (opens in a new tab)europapress.es · Spain · 13 Nov 2026
- The AI industry - Latest News (opens in a new tab)ultimasnoticias.com.ve · Venezuela · 13 Nov 2026
- Court orders Substrate AI to pay an additional 500,000 euros for buying Summon Press (opens in a new tab)economiadigital.es · Spain · 13 Nov 2026
- Spain's Royal Mathematical Society creates a Mathematics and AI committee to address the challenges posed by this technology (opens in a new tab)diariosigloxxi.com · Spain · 13 Nov 2026
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 367 in total, at most 45 in one day (9 Nov 2026).
367 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 50, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 50, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 50, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 50, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 50, world 36.
Previous years, reconstructed with today's data: 2023 67 · 2024 62 · 2025 59 why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.