There are rankings we’d like to challenge, and others that merely confirm, with figures backing up what we’ve been repeating for years.
The second edition of the Global Index on Responsible AI (GIRAI 2026), published by the Global Center on AI Governance with the Canadian International Development Research Centre and the British program “AI for Development,” belongs to the second category.
Tunisia sits at 110th place out of 135 countries evaluated, with an overall score of 16.37 out of 100. A result that is not merely mediocre: it reveals a national paradox that is now urgent to name.
An unequivocal verdict
The numbers speak for themselves. With 16.37 points, Tunisia is far below the world average, estimated at about 35 points, and also below the African average, which stands at 21.79 points for the 39 countries assessed on the continent.
Regionally, the assessment is even more severe. Tunisia is outpaced by Egypt, ranked 48th with 41.26 points, and by Morocco, 63rd with 35.62 points. It is even surpassed by Libya, 78th with 29.24 points, despite the institutional fragmentation and deep political divisions that affect that country.
Libya scores 31.99 points on the pillar devoted to public AI policies. Tunisia, on the other hand, records a zero.
Because that is where the whole problem lies. Tunisia’s zero score punishes neither its engineers nor its technological level. It concerns the pillar of public policies of the Ministry of Technologies, the most heavily weighted pillar of the index.
