Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption

Diella, formerly a virtual assistant on the government website, will handle public procurement, Prime Minister Edi Rama has said

Albania will soon be the first country to have an AI chatbot as a virtual minister, in an effort to clamp down on corruption by turning to an unbribable digital official.

The Balkan nation ranked 80th out of 180 countries in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index for last year.

Diella, meaning ‘sun’ in Albanian, will be responsible for all public procurement in Albania moving forward, Prime Minister Edi Rama said at a party assembly in Tirana on Thursday.

The bot initially launched earlier in the…

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