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Applied AI in Italy

Italy's entries are clinical and academic — stroke scans read within minutes at Varese, ChatGPT Edu piloted at Verona — under the Italian Strategy for Artificial Intelligence 2024-2026.

AI readiness
0.62
Rank 39 of 171 — IMF AI Preparedness Index
On the record
5
entries across 4 industries
National programme
2024
Strategia Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale 2024-2026
National programme

Strategia Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale 2024-2026

Announced 2024. Its pillars are research, public administration, enterprise, training.

Services 64.5% · Industry 22.6% · Agriculture 2.1% of gross value added — World Bank, 2025

Kind
Role
5 entries

Government & Public Sector

2

INPS, the national social security institute, runs 59 AI systems.

DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorItaly1 Sep 2026

Pieve Ligure puts 43 AI systems to work checking council papers

Comune di Pieve Ligure — Comune di Pieve Ligure has deployed 43 artificial intelligence systems for AI in local government, cross-checking municipal paperwork against regulations and flagging discrepancies to staff. Trialled across the general secretariat, local police and technical office, the tool won over staff, so the council funded a wider rollout using the ordinary budget. Small municipalities like this one, population roughly 2,500, rely on AI for municipal administration where single employees often run entire offices alone.

Municipal officergenovaquotidiana.com
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorItaly9 Jul 2026

INPS reports 59 AI systems in use across Italian social security

INPS (National Social Security Institute) — Italy's national social security institute, INPS, lists 59 AI systems classified under AgID guidelines in its 2026 annual report, bringing AI in social security to a multi-agent conversational chatbot and certified-email routing. The routing system automatically directed 70.4% of 5.4 million messages analysed from April 2021 to April 2026 with 87% overall accuracy, and generative AI helps staff check reimbursement documents in the Estate Inpsieme welfare programme.

publicpolicy.net

Business Operations

1

Bank of Italy research finds AI adoption raises firms' productivity and profitability.

Evidence of impactBusiness OperationsItaly2026-03

Bank of Italy finds AI raises firms' productivity and profitability

Banca d'Italia — A Bank of Italy occasional paper by Tiziano Ropele and Alex Tagliabracci finds that AI adoption lifts firms' labour productivity and profitability. Using the bank's survey of industrial and private non-financial service firms with 50-plus staff, matched to balance sheets and worker data, it sees a shift to higher-skilled jobs with total employment holding; just over 10% used AI in 2024.

bancaditalia.it

Education & Training

1

The University of Verona is piloting ChatGPT Edu with professors and researchers.

DeploymentEducation & TrainingItaly30 Jul 2026

University of Verona pilots ChatGPT Edu with professors and researchers

University of Verona — The University of Verona is trialling ChatGPT Edu with professors and young researchers ahead of AI-literacy courses. Those courses on AI skills start next academic year.

Faculty / studentunivrmagazine.it

Healthcare & Life Sciences

1

The hospital at Varese reads stroke scans with AI within minutes.

DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesItaly24 Aug 2026

Varese hospital uses AI to read stroke scans within minutes

ASST Sette Laghi (Ospedale di Circolo, Varese) — Varese's Ospedale di Circolo (ASST Sette Laghi) uses AI stroke imaging to interpret CT, perfusion and angiography scans in minutes, passing automated analysis to neurology and neuroradiology specialists for faster treatment decisions. The hospital treats about 600 ischaemic stroke patients yearly; specialists validate every AI result, and the vendor is unnamed.

Stroke clinicianvaresenoi.it
Latest on the record
  • DeploymentPieve Ligure puts 43 AI systems to work checking council papersGovernment & Public Sector1 Sep 2026genovaquotidiana.com
  • DeploymentVarese hospital uses AI to read stroke scans within minutesHealthcare & Life Sciences24 Aug 2026varesenoi.it
  • DeploymentUniversity of Verona pilots ChatGPT Edu with professors and researchersEducation & Training30 Jul 2026univrmagazine.it
Europe
Italy0.62United Kingdom0.73Czechia—Hungary—Estonia—Belarus—European Union0.66Albania—Germany0.75Netherlands0.77Switzerland—Andorra—Croatia—Russia—Belgium0.67France0.70Guernsey—Malta—Serbia—Spain0.65Austria0.72Gibraltar—Iceland—Slovakia—Sweden0.75Bosnia and Herzegovina—Denmark0.78Finland—Greece—Ireland0.69Latvia—Moldova—Montenegro—Poland0.60Ukraine—
Method and sources

Every entry on this page is a named organisation putting AI to work in a real job, taken from the State of Applied AI record. Each one is traced to the report it came from and dated, and where a figure is the organisation’s own the entry says so rather than presenting it as an independent result. Readiness, ecosystem and policy figures, where shown, are attributed on the card to the body that published them.

The record is maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI: entries are added as they are found and verified, not on a schedule, and nothing is published without an open source behind it. It currently holds 1114 entries across 249 countries.