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/Country
Zimbabwe
25/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 13% of countries
#137 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention25
- Adoption · single source9
- Regulation53
- Problems and attacks25
- Opportunities25
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents0
1 incident in the last 24 months · percentile among countries
AI exposure15
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 8.9% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
Missing safeguards69
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: -1.28 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: -1.22 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: -1.30 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
32
Exposure to threats
29
as a target 20 · as a cause 37
Closed, little exposedMedia coverage: medium (151 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 19.6 (as a target) + 50% × 37.3 (as a cause) = 28.5
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)32
Rule of law (0-100 score)39
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law100
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
Rules on AI used by the state (GIRAI)13
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-1.28
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law-1.22
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability-1.30
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
- Caine Prize clears Zimbabwean author of AI writing allegations and adds new rules (opens in a new tab)goskagit.com · United States · 13 Nov 2026 · and 16 other outlets
- Caine Prize for African writing finds 'no evidence' winning story was AI generated (opens in a new tab)bbc.co.uk · United Kingdom · 12 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- Caine Prize clears Zimbabwean author of AI use (opens in a new tab)wgauradio.com · United States · 12 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- A Zimbabwean author cleared of using AI to write prize-winning story (opens in a new tab)theguardian.com · United Kingdom · 12 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- Co-operative AI: A co-operative vision for a fairer, more inclusive and democratic Artificial Intelligence (opens in a new tab)thenews.coop · United Kingdom · 13 Nov 2026
- Op-Ed: What the AI Discourse On African Literature Misses (opens in a new tab)okayafrica.com · South Africa · 13 Nov 2026
- RBZ pushes responsible AI adoption as digitalisation reshapes insurance industry (opens in a new tab)newsday.co.zw · Zimbabwe · 13 Nov 2026
- 'VAR Complete': a Zimbabwean author reacts after being cleared of using AI to write a prize-winning story (opens in a new tab)indiatimes.com · India · 13 Nov 2026
- Africa: an author cleared of AI allegations (opens in a new tab)allafrica.com · Nigeria · 12 Nov 2026
- Caine Prize clears Zimbabwean author of AI-writing claims, confirms 2026 award (opens in a new tab)kenya-today.com · Kenya · 12 Nov 2026
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 127 in total, at most 36 in one day (15 Oct 2026).
127 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 25, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 25, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 25, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 25, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 25, world 36.
Previous years, reconstructed with today's data: 2023 insufficient data · 2024 insufficient data · 2025 53 why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.