{"id":18859,"date":"2025-09-11T18:04:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T18:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18859"},"modified":"2025-09-11T18:04:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T18:04:22","slug":"albania-names-ai-bot-as-minister-to-oversee-procurement-fight-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18859","title":{"rendered":"Albania names AI bot as minister to oversee procurement, fight corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>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.<\/p>\n<p>The bot, named Diella \u2013 meaning \u201csun\u201d in Albanian \u2013 will manage and award all public tenders in which the government contracts private companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiella is the first cabinet member who isn\u2019t physically present, but is virtually created by AI,\u201d Rama said while unveiling his new cabinet. He added that Diella would help make Albania \u201ca country where public tenders are 100% free of corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read More: AI think, therefore I A.M.<\/p>\n<p>Public tenders have long been a source of scandals in Albania, a Balkan state often described by experts as a hub for gangs laundering profits from drug and weapons trafficking. Corruption at high levels has complicated Albania\u2019s bid to join the European Union, which Rama hopes to achieve by 2030 \u2014 though analysts say that goal is ambitious.<\/p>\n<p>The government gave no details about human oversight of Diella or safeguards against possible manipulation.<\/p>\n<p>Also Read: AI-guided cameras make solo surgery possible in Santiago<\/p>\n<p>Diella was first launched earlier this year as an AI-powered virtual assistant on the e-Albania platform, where she helps citizens and businesses obtain state documents. Dressed in traditional Albanian attire, the bot interacts via voice commands and issues documents with electronic stamps, aiming to reduce bureaucratic delays.<\/p>\n<p>Not all Albanians are convinced. \u201cEven Diella will be corrupted in Albania,\u201d one Facebook user wrote. Another said: \u201cStealing will continue and Diella will be blamed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new parliament, elected in May, is set to convene on Friday, though it remains unclear if the government will be voted in on the same day.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2013 meaning \u201csun\u201d in Albanian \u2013 will manage and award all public tenders in which the government contracts private companies. \u201cDiella is the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}