The Albanian government Ai-powered virtual assistant, which helps citizens get everything from driver licenses to pension applications and court filing, has become just one of the first AI politicians around the world.
“Diella was the first member of the Cabinet who was not physically present, but almost created by AI,” and Jas was assigned to keep Albania “100% without corruption,” Albania’s prime minister Edi Rama Reported Says at a national socialist party assembly on Thursday.
Its task is to guard all the government’s acquisition of goods and services from the private sector, which has led to a series of corruption scandals in Albania in recent decades.
Reports state that Diella, which means “sun” in Albanian, served as an AI-powered virtual assistant on the E-Albania platform, helping citizens and businesses obtain various state documents through voice commands and release documents with electronic stamps to reduce bureaucratic delays.
Diella has already been reported Help Issue more than 36,600 digital documents and provide nearly 1,000 services by platform.
However, Rama did not give much detail to who was responsible for the mistakes made by Diella, what the human care was, or how the AI’s risks would hold.
AI bots make their way through governments
It is marked by one of the first major roles of the government held by an AI bot in history. Last May, Ukraine Unveiled “Victoria Shi,” an AI-Generated spokesperson providing updates to the objects of foreign activities.
👋 Identify Victoria Shi – a digital representative of the MFA of Ukraine, created using AI to provide timely updates on consular activities!
For the first time in history, the MFA of Ukraine has shown a digital persona who officially commented for the media. pic.twitter.com/kttucvr1ku
– MFA of Ukraine 🇺🇦 (@mfa_ukraine) May 1, 2024
Albania It appears to embrace AI more in crypto in recent years. While establishing a Crypto regulatory framework In May 2020 – one of the most comprehensive pieces of crypto law in Europe at that time – the Bank of Albania continues to issue warnings about the risks associated with crypto trading, Slow adoption.
Albania has been struck by corruption for decades
While Albania remains a peaceful country, it has long been a warm place for organized crime, along with some officials accused of benefiting contracts.
Earlier this year, Erion Veliaj, the mayor of Tirana, and Bad Meta, the former president and head of Albania of the Opposition Freedom Party, was charged with corruption.
In 2023, Lefter Koka, the former country’s former minister of the country, was punished In more than six years in prison for receiving a 3.7 million euro ($ 4.34 million) bribes linked to a construction project.
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Corruption restrained Albania from being a member of European Union Because it became a candidate country in 2014.
Rama, however, hopes his country will receive membership in 2030.
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