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/Country
Vietnam
44/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 77% of countries
#36 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention44
- Adoption · single source28
- Regulation30
- Problems and attacks28
- Opportunities36
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents28
4 incidents in the last 24 months · percentile among countries
AI exposure39
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 27.9% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
AI compute capacity: 50 (2026-11) · Epoch AI — GPU Clusters
Missing safeguards69
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: -0.14 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: -0.17 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: -1.27 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
69
Exposure to threats
40
as a target 43 · as a cause 36
Open, little exposedMedia coverage: high (4,935 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 43.3 (as a target) + 50% × 36.4 (as a cause) = 39.8
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)18
Rule of law (0-100 score)56
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law100
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
Rules on AI used by the state (GIRAI)49
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
1
12-24 months ago
+ 3 with only the year
/Reported incidents
4 in 24 monthsJun 2025
Reported Student Misuse of ChatGPT, StudyX, and Gemini to Obtain Answers During Vietnam's 2025 National High School Graduation Exam (opens in a new tab)severity: moderate · partly estimated from the text
country inferred from the textaccording to AI Incident Databaseorigin: United States (Google, OpenAI)AI labs pages: Google, OpenAI
Also reported by· 2 articles from 1 outlet
- Vietnamese student faces charges for cheating on high school graduation exam with ChatGPT (opens in a new tab) · e.vnexpress.net · 27 Jun 2025
- 2 Hanoi boys caught using AI to cheat in high school graduation exam (opens in a new tab) · e.vnexpress.net · 1 Jul 2025
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
2025
Two Vietnamese women are nearly killed after following ChatGPT advice (opens in a new tab)severity: moderate · partly estimated from the textGenerative AI
the source gives only the yearaccording to AIAAIC Repositoryorigin: United States (OpenAI)AI labs pages: OpenAI
Also reported by· 1 article from 1 outlet
2024
OpenDream AI art generator accused of generating child sex images (opens in a new tab)severity: moderate · partly estimated from the textGenerative AI
the source gives only the yearaccording to AIAAIC Repository
Also reported by· 1 article from 1 outlet
/Laws and safeguards
Regulatory quality-0.14
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law-0.17
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability-1.27
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
- 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
- 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
- AI Opportunity Fund Expands AI Skills Training Across Asia Pacific with 28 Phase Three Local Implementing Partners – Thailand Business News (opens in a new tab)thailand-business-news.com · Thailand · 11 Nov 2026 · and 15 other outlets
- Global powers head to Asia with trade, AI, security in focus (opens in a new tab)freemalaysiatoday.com · Malaysia · 12 Nov 2026 · and 11 other outlets
- Stavian Group Showcases Its Infrastructure Vision for the AI Era at the Inaugural Fortune SEA500 Summit 2026 (opens in a new tab)singaporestar.com · Singapore · 9 Nov 2026 · and 9 other outlets
- From AI Native Advertising to Marketing System Delivery: BlueMedia launches partnership with ChatGPT Ads (opens in a new tab)prnewswire.com · United States · 12 Nov 2026 · and 8 other outlets
- Veterans tour Washington war memorials using AI glasses (opens in a new tab)kold.com · United States · 11 Nov 2026 · and 2 other outlets
- 有产线开工率不足3成，设备商转行AI，储能的苦日子来了 (opens in a new tab)sina.com.cn · China · 10 Nov 2026 · and 2 other outlets
- China Explores a New Pathway for Medical AI: Bridging R&D Innovation and Clinical Adoption (opens in a new tab)finanznachrichten.de · Germany · 10 Nov 2026 · and 2 other outlets
- OpenAI新模型临门一脚踩刹车！GPT-6.2曝出安全疑云 (opens in a new tab)sina.com.cn · China · 9 Nov 2026 · and 2 other outlets
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 4,291 in total, at most 209 in one day (19 Oct 2026).
4,291 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 44, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 44, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 44, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 44, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 44, world 36.
Previous years, reconstructed with today's data: 2023 46 · 2024 51 · 2025 55 why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.