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Title: Albania Appoints AI Bot as Minister To Tackle Corruption

Link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/11/185214/al...

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. From a report: Prime
Minister Edi Rama, who is about to begin his fourth term, said on Sept 11
that Diella, which means "sun" in Albanian, will manage and award all public
tenders in which the government contracts private companies for various
projects. "Diella is the first Cabinet member who isn't physically present,
but is virtually created by AI," Mr Rama said during a speech unveiling his
new Cabinet. She will help make Albania "a country where public tenders are
100 per cent free of corruption." The awarding of such contracts has long
been a source of corruption scandals in Albania, a Balkan country that
experts say is a hub for gangs seeking to launder their money from
trafficking drugs and weapons across the world, and where graft has reached
the corridors of power.

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