AI Job Risk in Italy

Average generative-AI exposure of the workforce

0.303

ILO score (0–1). Rank 13 of 20 countries.

People in employment, 2025

24,114,000

ILO modelled estimate

What people in Italy work as

Share of employment in each ISCO-08 major occupation group, and the group's average generative-AI exposure (ILO score, 0–1). The country figure above is the employment-weighted average of the exposure column.

Occupation group	Share of employment	Exposure (ILO, 0–1)
Technicians and associate professionals	18.0%	0.35
Service and sales workers	17.6%	0.26
Professionals	16.3%	0.39
Craft and related trades workers	13.2%	0.17
Skilled agricultural workers and elementary occupations	12.6%	0.15
Clerical support workers	12.1%	0.53
Plant and machine operators, and assemblers	6.3%	0.20
Managers	4.0%	0.36

Method: each country's employment by ISCO-08 major occupation group (ILOSTAT, ILO modelled estimates) multiplied by the average ILO exposure score of the occupations in that group (ILO Working Paper 140), then added up. The ILO publishes skilled agricultural workers and elementary occupations as one group and leaves out the armed forces. The figure uses the ILO's 0–1 scale, not the 0–100 occupation index used elsewhere on this site, and it treats an occupation as equally exposed in every country.

How to read this page in practice

The notes below explain how to read the country figure, what kind of occupation mix raises or lowers it, and what this comparison can and cannot tell you.

How to Read This Country

Reading Italy well means separating the office layer from the workshop floor. A large share of employment sits inside small, owner-operated firms in textiles, leather goods, furniture, and food production, where decisions are informal and tacit rather than documented in systems AI can absorb. Alongside this, banks, insurers, and public offices generate the kind of structured, repetitive paperwork that AI tools handle comfortably. The result is a labor market where automation pressure concentrates in back-office and administrative layers while production and service work tied to regional craft traditions changes far more slowly.

What drives the figure

Italy's employment concentrates in manufacturing districts specializing in fashion, leather, furniture, and machinery, alongside tourism, hospitality, food service, and a sizeable public sector. AI pressure moves fastest through banking back offices, insurance claims processing, public administration paperwork, and standardized bookkeeping in the many small firms that outsource such tasks to shared services. It moves far more slowly through the artisanal core, where roles like pattern makers, master tailors, furniture craftsmen, and food producers rely on manual skill and design judgment, and through tourism and hospitality roles where guests expect personal attention, local knowledge, and hands-on service that no software replicates.

What Holds Up Better

What holds up in Italy is work anchored in craft, design sense, and personal relationships built inside a family or district-based business model. Artisans, designers, and small-firm owners who combine technical skill with aesthetic judgment remain difficult to replace, as do hospitality and food-service roles where personal familiarity defines the customer experience. In a country where thousands of small firms operate with informal, relationship-based management rather than standardized corporate processes, the kind of large-scale, rules-based automation that works well in bigger organizations has less to grab onto.

What This Page Does Not Claim

A single national score cannot capture the gap between Italy's industrial north, with its dense manufacturing districts, and its more tourism- and agriculture-dependent south, or between large firms and the vast population of family-run micro-enterprises that operate outside standardized corporate systems. Read this score as a broad signal, not a claim that clerical work in a Milan bank and artisanal work in a Tuscan workshop face the same pressure.

Jobs Most At Risk from AI

This table is a current snapshot of the jobs that appear on the higher-risk side within this country profile. It is useful as a directional comparison, not as a permanent national ranking. Both lists only include jobs in the three occupation groups that employ the most people in Italy, ordered by exposure index.

Rank	Job	Occupation group	Generative-AI exposure
1	Interpreter	Professionals	98
2	Translator	Professionals	98
3	Web Developer	Professionals	97
4	Technical Writer	Professionals	96
5	Programmer	Professionals	96
6	Content Writer	Professionals	95
7	Copywriter	Professionals	95
8	Data Analyst	Professionals	95
9	Data Scientist	Professionals	95
10	Software Tester	Professionals	95
11	Advertising Specialist	Professionals	94
12	Market Research Analyst	Professionals	94
13	Marketing Specialist	Professionals	94
14	SEO Specialist	Professionals	94
15	Social Media Manager	Professionals	94
16	IT Support Specialist	Technicians and associate professionals	94
17	Editor	Professionals	94
18	Sales Representative	Technicians and associate professionals	93
19	Telemarketer	Service and sales workers	93
20	Journalist	Professionals	93

Jobs Safest from AI

This table shows the jobs that currently appear on the lower-risk side within this country profile. Read it as a structural comparison of work, not as a guarantee that these roles will stay unchanged.

Rank	Job	Occupation group	Generative-AI exposure
1	Firefighter	Service and sales workers	25
2	Ship Engineer	Technicians and associate professionals	27
3	Water Treatment Operator	Technicians and associate professionals	27
4	Veterinary Assistant	Technicians and associate professionals	28
5	Paramedic	Technicians and associate professionals	32
6	Dentist	Professionals	33
7	Laboratory Technician	Technicians and associate professionals	37
8	Pilot	Technicians and associate professionals	39
9	Power Plant Operator	Technicians and associate professionals	39
10	Security Guard	Service and sales workers	39
11	Fitness Trainer	Technicians and associate professionals	39
12	Barista	Service and sales workers	39
13	Surgeon	Professionals	39
14	Sound Engineer	Technicians and associate professionals	41
15	Ship Captain	Technicians and associate professionals	42
16	Bartender	Service and sales workers	43
17	Chef	Technicians and associate professionals	44
18	Cook	Service and sales workers	44
19	Medical Assistant	Technicians and associate professionals	46
20	Veterinarian	Professionals	47

Sources

Exposure index calculated by ai-job-risk.net from the datasets below (data as of October 15, 2026). US labour figures are from the BLS, unchanged.

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Frequently asked questions

Q.Which jobs are most at risk from AI in Italy?

Most exposed: Interpreter, Translator, Web Developer. Italy's employment concentrates in manufacturing districts specializing in fashion, leather, furniture, and machinery, alongside tourism, hospitality, food service, and a sizeable public sector. AI pressure moves fastest through banking back offices, insurance claims processing, public administration paperwork, and standardized bookkeeping in the many small firms that outsource such tasks to shared services.

Q.Which jobs are safest from AI in Italy?

Least exposed: Firefighter, Ship Engineer, Water Treatment Operator. What holds up in Italy is work anchored in craft, design sense, and personal relationships built inside a family or district-based business model. Artisans, designers, and small-firm owners who combine technical skill with aesthetic judgment remain difficult to replace, as do hospitality and food-service roles where personal familiarity defines the customer experience.

Q.How exposed is Italy to AI automation?

Reading Italy well means separating the office layer from the workshop floor. A large share of employment sits inside small, owner-operated firms in textiles, leather goods, furniture, and food production, where decisions are informal and tacit rather than documented in systems AI can absorb. Alongside this, banks, insurers, and public offices generate the kind of structured, repetitive paperwork that AI tools handle comfortably.

Q.Does high exposure mean jobs will disappear in Italy?

A single national score cannot capture the gap between Italy's industrial north, with its dense manufacturing districts, and its more tourism- and agriculture-dependent south, or between large firms and the vast population of family-run micro-enterprises that operate outside standardized corporate systems. Read this score as a broad signal, not a claim that clerical work in a Milan bank and artisanal work in a Tuscan workshop face the same pressure.