AI Action Plan for Switzerland

The AI Action Plan for Switzerland unites business, science, and government around five key priorities: Boosting AI competencies, advancing world-class research and innovation, building resilient infrastructure, unlocking AI-ready data, and creating smart AI Governance.

Scaled AI Education and Literacy

Creating an AI Competency Boost for our economy and the entire population

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Switzerland's public campaign the responsible use of AI
Strengthen Swiss-wide AI Education
Strengthen AI skilling for Teachers
Playbook for AI Adoption
Certificate of Trustworthy AI Use

World-Class Research and Innovation

Expanding our world-class research and innovation through close European cooperation.

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Deepen International AI Research Collaboration
National AI Innovation and Regulatory test environments (Sandboxes)
Digital Innovation Hubs for SME AI adoption
CERN for AI
Swiss AI models (e.g. Apertus) for key industries

Resilient Digital Infrastructure

Building a resilient and competitive digital infrastructure for Switzerland as a business location.

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Define procurement standards to manage public digital infrastructure dependencies
Increase AI energy efficiency/ transparency
Forecast AI compute and electricity demand in Switzerland
Ideal framework conditions for data center development
Introduction of e-ID and further development of trust infrastructure

AI-Ready Data

Unlocking high-quality AI-ready data as fuel for research, innovation and business models.

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Define and provide an assessment framework for AI-ready data
Promote secondary use of data to train or run AI system(s)
Promote standards and accessible platform for public sector data across federal, cantonal, and municipal levels
Promote hosting of international Trusted Data Observatory in Geneva
Promote use cases for AI-ready data

Smart AI Governance

Ensure the Swiss way: Innovation-friendly, streamlined AI governance

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Implementation Toolkit for responsible AI self-commitments
National AI Innovation and Regulatory test environments (Sandboxes)
Constitutional Digitalisation Article