{"id":134084,"date":"2025-09-13T07:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T07:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/134084\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T07:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T07:46:07","slug":"albanias-prime-minister-appoints-an-ai-generated-minister-to-tackle-corruption-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/134084\/","title":{"rendered":"Albania’s prime minister appoints an AI-generated ‘minister’ to tackle corruption | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Albania\u2019s prime minister has appointed an artificial intelligence-generated \u201cminister\u201d to tackle corruption and promote innovation in his new cabinet.<\/p>\n

The new AI minister, officially named Diella – the female form of the word for sun in the Albanian language – was appointed on Friday and is a virtual entity.<\/p>\n

Diella will be a “member of the cabinet who is not present physically but has been created virtually,” Prime Minister Edi Rama said in a post on Facebook.<\/p>\n

Mr Rama said the AI-generated bot would help ensure that “public tenders are completely free of corruption” and assist the government in operating more efficiently and transparently.<\/p>\n

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\n Albania’s AI “minister” Diella. Pic: AP\/Vlasov Sulaj<\/p>\n

Diella uses the latest AI models and methods to ensure accuracy in carrying out its assigned responsibilities, according to the website of Albania’s National Agency for Information Society.<\/p>\n

Diella, portrayed wearing a traditional Albanian folk costume, was developed earlier this year in partnership with Microsoft. She serves as a virtual assistant on the e-Albania public service platform, helping users navigate the site and access around one million digital inquiries and documents.<\/p>\n

Mr Rama’s Socialist Party won a fourth straight term by securing 83 out of 140 seats in the parliamentary elections in May.<\/p>\n

With this majority, the party can govern independently and pass most laws, though it falls short of the 93-seat threshold required to amend the Constitution.<\/p>\n

The Socialists have pledged to secure European Union membership for Albania within five years, aiming to complete negotiations by 2027 – a claim met with scepticism by the Democratic opposition, who argue the country is not ready.<\/p>\n

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The Western Balkan country began full EU membership negotiations a year ago. The incoming government now faces key challenges, including tackling organized crime and long-standing corruption – issues that have persisted since the end of communist rule in 1990.<\/p>\n

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Diella is also expected to support local authorities in accelerating reforms and aligning with EU standards.<\/p>\n

President Bajram Begaj has tasked Prime Minister Rama with forming the new government, a move analysts say grants him the authority to establish and implement the AI-powered assistant Diella.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Albania\u2019s prime minister has appointed an artificial intelligence-generated \u201cminister\u201d to tackle corruption and promote innovation in his new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-134084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}