Albania appoints AI-generated minister

The Albanian Government has appointed an AI-generated minister to its procurement portfolio. In a world-first, an AI bot developed to help Albanians navigate government services online has been promoted to head public procurement, the prime...

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Albania names AI bot to cabinet to manage public procurement and tackle corruption

Albania has become the first country to appoint an artificial intelligence bot as a member of the cabinet. The milestone cabinet appointment is the first ever political appointment of an AI bot in the world. Albania has broken a new record in...

Albania appoints ‘world’s first’ AI government minister

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said on Thursday he had appointed the world’s first AI-generated government minister to oversee public tenders, promising its artificial intelligence would make it “corruption-free”. Presenting his new cabinet at a...

Albania names AI-generated minister to avoid corruption

TIRANA: Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said on Thursday he had appointed the world’s first AI-generated minister to oversee public tenders, promising its artificial intelligence would make it “corruption-free”. Presenting his new cabinet at a...

Albania Appoints AI Bot Diella as Minister to Combat Procurement Corruption

In a groundbreaking move that blends cutting-edge technology with governance reform, Albania has appointed an artificial intelligence bot named Diella as its new minister overseeing public procurement. Announced by Prime Minister Edi Rama on...

Meet Diella: The World’s first AI cabinet minister appointed in Albania to fight corruption

Albania has named an artificial intelligence robot, Diella, a cabinet-level minister responsible for monitoring the country's public procurement processes in a world first. The move represents a daring experiment in government that has provoked...

Albania appoints AI bot as minister to foil corruption

Albania names AI bot as minister to oversee procurement, fight corruption

Albania has appointed an artificial intelligence bot as a new minister to oversee public procurement, in a move Prime Minister Edi Rama says will help eliminate corruption. The bot, named Diella – meaning “sun” in Albanian – will manage and award...

Albania appoints AI bot as minister to foil corruption

Prime Minister Edi Rama, who is about to begin his fourth term, said on Thursday that Diella, which means "sun" in Albanian, will manage and award all public tenders in which the government contracts private companies for various projects.

Albania appoints 'corruption-free' AI-generated minister

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has said he has appointed the world's first AI-generated government minister to oversee public tenders, promising its artificial intelligence would make it "corruption-free". Presenting his new cabinet at a meeting...

Albania appoints AI-generated minister to avoid corruption

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said Thursday he had appointed the world's first AI-generated government minister to oversee public tenders, promising its artificial intelligence would make it "corruption-free". Presenting his new cabinet at a...

Albania tomato exports blocked in Croatia

The State Police in Albania announced that three people have been arrested in Berat following the blocking and destruction of around 8 tons of tomatoes by Croatian authorities. The shipment, exported from Albania, was found to contain high levels...

Albania names AI bot ‘Diella’ as procurement minister in anti-corruption push

3Albania has appointed an artificial-intelligence system as a cabinet-level minister to oversee public procurement, a move the government says is designed to remove human discretion from the awarding of state contracts. Prime Minister Edi Rama...

Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption

PRISTINA (Reuters) -A new minister in Albania charged to handle public procurement will be impervious to bribes, threats, or attempts to curry favour. That is because Diella, as she is called, is an AI-generated bot. Prime Minister Edi Rama, who...

Albania appoints AI minister to fight corruption

A new minister in Albania charged to handle public procurement will be impervious to bribes, threats, or attempts to curry favor. That is because Diella, as she is called, is an AI-generated bot. Prime Minister Edi Rama, who is about to begin his...

Albania puts AI-created ‘minister’ in charge of public procurement

A digital assistant that helps people navigate government services online has become the first “virtually created” AI cabinet minister and put in charge of public procurement in an attempt to cut down on corruption, the Albanian prime minister has...

Albania names virtual AI procurement minister

TIRANA, Sept 11 (TemA) — Albania says it will be the first country to appoint a non-physical artificial intelligence as a government minister, as Prime Minister Edi Rama announced a new cabinet that includes an AI named “Diella” as minister of...

Albania appoints world’s first AI-made minister

At the Socialist Party assembly in Tirana on Thursday, where Rama announced which ministers would get the chop and which would stay on for another mandate, he also introduced Diella, the only non-human member of the government. “Diella is the...

Albania Digs Up a Roman Noble’s Tomb–the First of its Kind Ever Found in the Country

First Roman-Era Tomb found in Albania – Photo courtesy of Blendi Gonxhja Once a byword for backward and mafiosos, Albania is experiencing a tourist boom, and sure to help the effort is the recent discovery of a Roman noble’s mausoleum. Part of the...