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🇪🇸 Spain

Pedro Sánchez · Prime Minister

Services-tourism heavy Economy · GDP $1.6T

Spain's economy runs on tourism, sunshine, and vibes — all of which are AI-resistant. The siesta might be the world's most underrated automation defense.

MODERATE COPE

Score Breakdown

Preparedness

Policy readiness for AI displacement

Leader Cope

Rhetoric vs reality gap

Exposure

Economic vulnerability to automation

☠️ 63

Screwed Score

VULNERABLE

14% of GDP from tourism — an industry one automated concierge away from halving its workforce. Youth unemployment was 27% before AI, and the service sector that absorbed the 2008 crash refugees is next on the chopping block.

Key Sectors

Tourism Agriculture Automotive Renewable Energy Services

Policy Assessment

Spain's National AI Strategy (ENIA) has €600M+ in funding and is more substantive than many EU peers. Tourism (14% of GDP) is relatively AI-proof — people don't vacation to be served by chatbots. Renewable energy push creates new jobs. But services sector vulnerability remains. Youth unemployment was already a crisis before AI. Sánchez talks the talk on digital transformation but the structural employment problems predate AI.

Notable Cope Quotes

“Spain must be at the forefront of the AI revolution in Europe.”

— Pedro Sánchez

“We will ensure digital transformation benefits all of Spanish society.”