{"id":83808,"date":"2025-09-12T13:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=83808"},"modified":"2025-09-12T13:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:25:09","slug":"albania-appoints-worlds-first-ai-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/albania-appoints-worlds-first-ai-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Albania Appoints World&#8217;s First AI Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Albania has become the first country in the world to appoint an AI minister\u2014an artificial intelligence serving as a government administrator. This was reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/albania-apppoints-worlds-first-virtual-minister-edi-rama-diella\/\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The virtual assistant has been named Diella, which means &#8220;sunlight&#8221; in Albanian. The neural network will be responsible for all government procurement.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Edi Rama introduced the AI politician at a Socialist Party meeting in Tirana.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Diella is the first member who is not physically present but is virtually created by artificial intelligence,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Decisions on tenders will be transferred from ministries to the digital assistant. The process will proceed step by step.<\/p>\n<p>Albania will become a country where government procurement is &#8220;100% non-corrupt, and every public fund passing through these procedures is 100% transparent,&#8221; Rama noted.<\/p>\n<p>Diella already manages the national e-Albania platform, which allows residents to access nearly all official services digitally. The AI is represented by an avatar of a young woman in Albanian attire.<\/p>\n<p>Albania has long struggled with corruption, particularly in public administration and government procurement. This issue has been repeatedly raised by the European Union in its annual rule of law reports.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ai-agents-replace-politicians-in-simulated-federal-reserve-meeting\">replaced<\/a> politicians with AI agents at a meeting of the <span data-descr=\"Federal Reserve System of the USA\" class=\"old_tooltip\">Federal Reserve<\/span> and found that political pressure divided board members during discussions on interest rates.<\/p>\n<p>In September, Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ukraine-launches-state-ai-agent-on-diia-portal\">launched<\/a> the &#8220;world&#8217;s first&#8221; state AI agent on the &#8220;Diia&#8221; portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albania has become the first country in the world to appoint an AI minister\u2014an artificial intelligence serving as a government administrator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Albania appoints world's first AI minister, an AI serving as a government administrator.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,1711],"class_list":["post-83808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-public-administration"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"492","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Albania appoints world's first AI minister, an AI serving as a government administrator.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83809,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83808\/revisions\/83809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}