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”.<\/p>\n
Presenting his new cabinet at a meeting of his Socialist Party following a big May election victory, Mr Rama introduced the new “member”, named “Diella” – “sun” in Albanian.<\/p>\n
“Diella is the first (government) member who is not physically present, but virtually created by artificial intelligence,” Mr Rama said.<\/p>\n
Diella will be entrusted with all decisions on public tenders, making them “100% corruption-free and every public fund submitted to the tender procedure will be perfectly transparent,” he added.<\/p>\n
Diella was launched in January as an AI-powered virtual assistant – resembling a woman dressed in traditional Albanian costume – to help people use the official e-Albania platform that provides documents and services.<\/p>\n
So far, it has helped issue 36,600 digital documents and provided nearly 1,000 services through the platform, according to official figures.<\/p>\n
Mr Rama, who secured a fourth term in office in the elections, is due to present his new cabinet to politicians in the coming days.<\/p>\n
The fight against corruption, particularly in the public administration, is a key criterion in Albania’s bid to join the European Union.<\/p>\n
Mr Rama aspires to lead the Balkan nation of 2.8 million people into the political bloc by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has said he has appointed the world’s first AI-generated government minister to oversee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-19411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}