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/Country
Zambia
34/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 46% of countries
#84 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention34
- Adoption · single source13
- Regulation43
- Problems and attacks17
- Opportunities29
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents0
1 incident in the last 24 months · percentile among countries
AI exposure43
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 13.3% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
Missing safeguards69
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: -0.45 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: -0.49 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: -0.31 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
52
Exposure to threats
18
as a target 11 · as a cause 26
Open, little exposedMedia coverage: high (513 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 10.6 (as a target) + 50% × 26.1 (as a cause) = 18.4
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)86
Rule of law (0-100 score)51
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law100
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
Rules on AI used by the state (GIRAI)22
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
+ 1 with only the year
/Reported incidents
1 in 24 months2025
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-0.45
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law-0.49
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability-0.31
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
- 88 to 12! In tackling cancer, are vertical AI models better than mainstream general-purpose large models and human doctors? (opens in a new tab)sina.com.cn · China · 13 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- iPhone Siri AI Experience: How Far Is Apple From a True AI Phone? | With Activation Guide (opens in a new tab)163.com · China · 12 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- 号称行业首个具身全模态端到端交互大模型！智元机器人发布WITA-Omni (opens in a new tab)sina.com.cn · China · 10 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- 54岁大叔靠AI短剧逆袭？主创回应：不要神化，都是熬夜打磨出来的 (opens in a new tab)sina.com.cn · China · 9 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- 新华鲜报｜世界媒体峰会上，北京亮出AI"新名片"-新华网 (opens in a new tab)xinhuanet.com · China · 8 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- 32岁华裔AI女富豪 被女星前任控豪宅藏毒 拒救濒死者 (opens in a new tab)wenxuecity.com · China · 13 Nov 2026
- 6G's 'decisive battle': who will weave satellites, AI and industries into one network (opens in a new tab)163.com · China · 13 Nov 2026
- Is AI changing everything? _Sina Tech_Sina.com (opens in a new tab)sina.com.cn · China · 13 Nov 2026
- blackNgreen's AI Platforms Now Reach 225 Million People Across Africa, Bringing First-Time Credit to Over a Million and New Revenue to the Continent's Telcos (opens in a new tab)businessdayghana.com · Ghana · 13 Nov 2026
- iPhone Siri AI Experience: How Far Is Apple From a True AI Phone? (opens in a new tab)ifeng.com · China · 13 Nov 2026
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 452 in total, at most 61 in one day (26 Oct 2026).
452 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 34, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 34, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 34, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 34, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 34, world 36.
Previous years, reconstructed with today's data: 2023 44 · 2024 42 · 2025 38 why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.