Leaderboard / Serbia
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🇷🇸 Serbia
Aleksandar Vucic · President
Mixed transitional Economy · GDP $75B
Serbia is too busy navigating between the EU and Russia to notice the robots coming. Vucic has mastered the art of announcing tech parks that never materialize while calling himself a visionary.
35
PARTIAL COPE
Score Breakdown
18
Preparedness
Policy readiness for AI displacement
52
Leader Cope
Rhetoric vs reality gap
38
Exposure
Economic vulnerability to automation
☠️ 38
Screwed Score
EXPOSED
Small transitional economy with a growing but tiny IT sector. Low exposure because there is not much to expose. Manufacturing and agriculture are harder to automate than services, and Serbia has limited services economy. The bigger risk is brain drain accelerating as AI-skilled workers leave for the EU.
Key Sectors
Manufacturing
Agriculture
IT Services
Mining
Automotive
Policy Assessment
Serbia has no national AI strategy worth mentioning. Vucic periodically announces tech initiatives at press conferences that are quietly forgotten by the next news cycle. The IT sector is genuinely growing but entirely despite government policy, not because of it. Most skilled workers leave for Western Europe. The official position on AI displacement is essentially not having one, which might accidentally be the most honest approach on this list.
Notable Cope Quotes
“Serbia will become the Silicon Valley of the Balkans. We are already a regional IT leader.”
— Aleksandar Vucic
“Our young people are the best programmers in Europe. AI is an opportunity, not a threat.”
— Aleksandar Vucic
“We are building five new tech parks. Serbia is ready for the future.”
— Aleksandar Vucic
Scored 2026-05-08T22:35:55.957622 · Oracle Protocol v5.0 · Countries CopeCheck