Albania's AI minister speaks to parliament

Albania's new AI-generated minister Diella addressed parliament for the first time on Thursday, defending its role as "not here to replace people, but to help them". Last week, Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama said the AI would be entrusted with all decisions on public tenders, making them "100 per cent corruption-free and every public fund submitted to the tender procedure will be perfectly transparent".

Diella was launched in January as an AI-powered virtual assistant to help people use the official e-Albania platform, which provides documents and services. Albania ranks 80th out of 180 countries in Transparency International's corruption index.