Switzerland
attention index
The country in the five views
- Attention31
- Adoption35
- Regulation94
- Problems and attacks30
- Opportunities51
/Why this colour
how it is computedThe state and AI
how it is computedWhy this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 35.3 (as a target) + 50% × 13.4 (as a cause) = 24.3
What protects
What we cannot see
We count reported cyber attacks, not all those that happened; there is no worldwide measure of threats made with AI; for surveillance and spyware the sources stop at 2022-2024.
Examples
AI tenders (TED)
- Référencement pour le Développement, la maintenance et l’évolution de chatbots RAG (opens in a new tab)10 Mar 2026 · contract award · Centrale d'achats et d'ingénierie biomédicale Vaud-Genève (CAIB)
- (25080) 704 Plateforme multitenant de chatbot public SECO (opens in a new tab)4 Nov 2025 · contract award · Office fédéral des constructions et de la logistique OFCL
- KI Chatbot-Lösung (opens in a new tab)3 Dec 2024 · contract award · Kanton Luzern Dienststelle Informatik
Incidents where the state uses AI
/How the state uses it
how it worksPublic register: it shows how transparent the country is about its systems, not how much it uses them.
Main sectors
Most recent cases
- ZüriCityGPT (opens in a new tab)City of Zurich · 2024 · in usePeople seeking information about city administration often face a familiar problem: official websites contain a great deal of useful content, but search and navigation do not always produce direct answers to practical questions. ZüriCityGPT addresses this by offering a conversational layer over…
- LoRaWAN - The IoT network for Zurich (opens in a new tab)EWZ - Service Division of the Department of Public Utilities and Transport of the City of Zurich · 2023 · in useChronic-disease care requires continuity across hospitals, community services, clinicians, patients and caregivers, especially where repeated outpatient visits or avoidable hospitalisations can reduce quality of life and increase pressure on health systems. COReHealth was developed in Puglia as a…
- Mapping Vulnerable Populations with AI (opens in a new tab)ETH ZURICH · 2022 · in development or not statedPolicymakers require accurate, up-to-date insights into the spatial distribution of vulnerable populations to design targeted social, health and disaster response interventions. Conventional census-based methods may lack timeliness or granularity. Stakeholders include public authorities, social…
- Chatbot - Offer residents and tourism information and services from the administration (opens in a new tab)Municipality of St.Gallen · 2021 · in useThe City of St. Gallen tested this chatbot to improve how residents and tourists access municipal information and services, particularly in situations where users need quick, practical answers without navigating multiple systems. City administrations often hold a broad range of service…
- Maxi - Chatbot answering questions on insurance (opens in a new tab)Social Insurance Institute of Canton of Aargau · 2021 · in useSocial Insurance Aargau introduced the Maxi chatbot to deal with a high volume of routine enquiries and to reduce the operational burden created by daily incoming questions. Many requests to social-insurance institutions concern general matters that do not involve sensitive personal data, yet…
- MPAI Community: Moving Picture, Audio and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence (MPAI) (opens in a new tab)MPAI Association · 2021 · in useMPAI is an international, unaffiliated, non-profit organisation established to develop technical specifications for moving picture, audio and data coding enabled by new digital technologies. The sectoral challenge is that media and data coding systems require interoperable standards, predictable…
- NOGAuto - Assign or control codes to companies for economic activities (opens in a new tab)Federal Office for Statistics · 2021 · pilotThe Federal Statistical Office depends on accurate and stable NOGA coding in the Business and Enterprise Register because these economic-activity classifications directly influence the quality of structural, economic and synthetic business statistics. The operational challenge is that coding…
- MedicalGuide project (opens in a new tab)Canton Aargau · 2020 · retiredCanton Aargau has been involved in the MedicalGuide project, which provides users with an initial assessment of disease by using a Chatbot
- Chatbot - Security institution information, find the ones entitled to premium reductions (opens in a new tab)Social Insurance Institute of St.Gallen · 2019 · in useIn the Canton of St. Gallen, the social security institution needed a more accessible way to provide citizens with information about its services, particularly where people may be unsure about entitlements or may not know how to navigate the institution’s offerings. Access barriers of this kind…
- Machine Learning SoSi (ML_SoSi) (opens in a new tab)Federal Statistical Office · 2019 · pilotSocial-security systems generate complex longitudinal data on benefit receipt, employment transitions and individual pathways, but statistical offices need methods that can summarise these patterns without reducing them to isolated indicators. The Swiss Federal Statistical Office developed ML_SoSi…
/What we cannot see
/Incidents by period
in the country/Reported incidents
2 in 24 months- KI von Elon Musk beschimpft Keller-Sutter – Finanzdepartement erwägt Strafanzeige (opens in a new tab) · watson.ch · 15 Mar 2026
- Wegen Beleidigungen: Keller-Sutter geht juristisch gegen Elon Musks KI Grok vor (opens in a new tab) · aargauerzeitung.ch · 1 Apr 2026
- Swiss finance minister sues for defamation over Grok-created post (opens in a new tab) · reuters.com · 1 Apr 2026
/Laws and safeguards
/In the news
how it works- IA, Wmf: investitori founder ed esperti da tutto il mondo a confronto nella Silicon Valley (opens in a new tab)adnkronos.com · Italy · 12 Nov 2026 · and 6 other outlets
- EU, double summit in Dublin: focus on Ukraine and artificial intelligence (opens in a new tab)sanremonews.it · Italy · 12 Nov 2026 · and 6 other outlets
- Six out of 10 Indian consumers trust online health information, prefer instant AI answers: BCG Study (opens in a new tab)aninews.in · India · 13 Nov 2026 · and 5 other outlets
- Sunrise: Erstes AI-Mobilfunkabo der Schweiz ab 14 Franken (opens in a new tab)tagesanzeiger.ch · Switzerland · 9 Nov 2026 · and 3 other outlets
- Feeling the new pulse of the AI industry at the China International Import Expo (opens in a new tab)163.com · China · 9 Nov 2026 · and 2 other outlets
- United Airlines Moves to Ban Use of AI Agents in Booking Flights for Customers (opens in a new tab)theepochtimes.com · United States · 13 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- Facing AI transforming banking jobs, a new fund is created for continuing education (opens in a new tab)cedarnews.net · Lebanon · 13 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- LALAL.AI Brings Home Silver and Bronze From Europe's Lovie Awards (opens in a new tab)pr-inside.com · United States · 13 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- Napta expands its presence in Germany and brings AI-powered resource management to the professional services sector (opens in a new tab)presseschleuder.com · Germany · 13 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- The Five Stages of AI Grief (opens in a new tab)socialeurope.eu · United Kingdom · 13 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 2,672 in total, at most 266 in one day (9 Nov 2026).
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 31, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 31, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 31, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 31, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 31, world 36.
Previous years, reconstructed with today's data: 2023 36 · 2024 30 · 2025 18 why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.