Bern chatbot wins UN artificial intelligence award

The Bern-based chatbot "Sophia" has won the United Nations' "AI for Good Impact Award 2025". The chatbot is designed to help victims of domestic violence. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Sophia is a multilingual digital companion based on artificial intelligence (AI). The bot helps affected individuals to "recognise signs of violence, understand their rights, gather possible evidence and seek help", the developer Spring ACT wrote in a press release on Thursday. + Artificial intelligence explained Sophia is available around the clock and offers safe and anonymous information and support services. Spring ACT developed the chatbot with the support of Microsoft and is a Swiss charity organisation that uses technology to combat global social injustice. Translated from German by DeepL/ts How we work We select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools to translate them into English. A journalist then reviews the ...