{"id":2728,"date":"2025-09-13T01:35:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T01:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/13\/albania-appoints-ai-bot-minister-to-fight-corruption-in-world-first\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T01:35:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T01:35:46","slug":"albania-appoints-ai-bot-minister-to-fight-corruption-in-world-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/13\/albania-appoints-ai-bot-minister-to-fight-corruption-in-world-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Albania appoints AI bot \u2018minister\u2019 to fight corruption in world first"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Sceptics wonder whether \u2018Diella\u2019, depicted as a woman in traditional folk costume, will herself be \u2018corrupted\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has put an artificial intelligence-generated \u201cminister\u201d in charge of tackling corruption in his new cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>Diella, which means \u201csun\u201d in Albanian, was appointed on Thursday, with the leader introducing her as a \u201cmember of the cabinet who is not present physically\u201d who will ensure that \u201cpublic tenders will be 100 percent free of corruption\u201d.<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span>list of 3 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>list 1 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/gallery\/2025\/8\/18\/humanoid-robots-race-tumble-at-chinas-first-robot-olympics\">Photos: Humanoid robots race and tumble at China\u2019s first \u2018robot Olympics\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 2 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/economy\/2025\/8\/14\/women-with-ai-boyfriends-mourn-lost-love-after-cold-chatgpt-upgrade\">Women with AI \u2018boyfriends\u2019 mourn lost love after \u2018cold\u2019 ChatGPT upgrade<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 3 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/features\/2025\/8\/8\/why-has-an-ai-altered-bollywood-movie-sparked-uproar-in-india\">Why has an AI-altered Bollywood movie sparked uproar in India?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>The awarding of tenders has long been a source of corruption in the Balkan country of 2.8 million people, which aspires to join the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2024\/8\/31\/the-danger-of-pro-eu-euroscepticism-in-the-western-balkans\">European Union<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Corruption is a key factor in Albania\u2019s bid to join the bloc.<\/p>\n<p>Rama\u2019s Socialist Party, which recently secured a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/5\/13\/albania-election-results-2025\">fourth term<\/a> in office, has said it can deliver EU membership for Albania in five years, with negotiations concluding by 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers will soon vote on Rama\u2019s new cabinet, but it was unclear whether he would ask for a vote on Diella\u2019s virtual post.<\/p>\n<p>Legal experts say more work may be needed to establish the official status of Diella, who is depicted on screen as a woman in a traditional Albanian folk costume.<\/p>\n<p>Gazmend Bardhi, parliamentary group leader of the Democrats, said he considered Diella\u2019s ministerial status unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The] Prime Minister\u2019s buffoonery cannot be turned into legal acts of the Albanian state,\u201d Bardhi posted on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister did not provide details of what human oversight there might be for Diella, or address risks that someone could manipulate the artificial intelligence bot.<\/p>\n<p>Launched earlier this year as a virtual assistant on the e-Albania public service platform, Diella helped users navigate the site and get access to about one million digital documents.<\/p>\n<p>So far, she has helped issue 36,600 digital documents and provided nearly 1,000 services through the platform, according to official figures.<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone is convinced.<\/p>\n<p>One Facebook user said, \u201cEven Diella will be corrupted in Albania.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another said, \u201cStealing will continue and Diella will be blamed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sceptics wonder whether \u2018Diella\u2019, depicted as a woman in traditional folk costume, will herself be \u2018corrupted\u2019. 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