Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption

Leader of the Socialist Party and Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama delivers a speech during a rally successful Fier, Albania, connected May 7, 2025. [Florion Goga/Reuters]

A caller curate successful Albania charged to grip nationalist procurement will beryllium impervious to bribes, threats, oregon attempts to curry favour. That is due to the fact that Diella, arsenic she is called, is an AI-generated bot.

Prime Minister Edi Rama, who is astir to statesman his 4th term, said connected Thursday that Diella, which means “sun” successful Albanian, will negociate and grant each nationalist tenders successful which the authorities contracts backstage companies for various projects.

“Diella is the archetypal furniture subordinate who isn’t physically present, but is virtually created by AI,” Rama said during a speech unveiling his caller cabinet. She will assistance marque Albania “a state where nationalist tenders are 100% escaped of corruption.”

The awarding of such contracts has agelong been a source of corruption scandals successful Albania, a Balkan state that experts accidental is simply a hub for gangs seeking to launder their wealth from trafficking drugs and weapons crossed the world, and where graft has reached the corridors of power.

That representation has analyzable Albania’s accession to the European Union, which Rama wants to execute by 2030 but which governmental analysts accidental is ambitious.

[Reuters]