The Philippines ranks 68th of 135 on responsible AI. On jobs and skills, 81st.
A new global scorecard gave the country 32.98 out of 100. Its lowest marks were on retraining workers and on telling the public which government systems use AI.
The Philippines placed 68th out of 135 countries in the second edition of the Global Index on Responsible AI, a scorecard run by a research group called the Global Center on AI Governance. The country scored 32.98 out of 100, which puts it 16th in Asia and Oceania and below the regional middle mark of 34.98.
The index does not measure how much AI a country uses. It measures whether the rules around it exist: the laws, the agencies, the worker protections, and the ways an ordinary person can complain. The Philippine result rests on 27 pieces of evidence, things like filed bills and government policies, checked across five areas. Norway topped the list at 75.3.
Where the country scored lowest
Labor and skills, at 81st in the world. Inside that area, programmes to retrain workers scored 19.7 out of 100, and worker protections scored the same. Safety and security, counted under a different heading, scored 5.4 out of 100. The strongest single mark was public procurement at 65.9, meaning the government does have rules for buying AI.
Why it matters
The area where the country ranks lowest is the one closest to Filipino jobs: retraining people and protecting them at work, in an economy where a large share of the work is done for foreign clients. One more number is worth knowing. Public disclosure of government algorithmic systems scored 0.0 out of 100. There is no public list of which government systems already use AI to decide something about you.
The catch to watch
An index like this counts paperwork, not daily life. A bill that was filed but never passed can still count as evidence, and a rule written down is not the same as a rule enforced. The result is also not a collapse. The score sits 6 points above the average for countries in the same income bracket, and ahead of half the 135 assessed. The honest reading is middling, with one weak spot that happens to be the one that touches Filipino workers.