{"id":312852,"date":"2025-09-13T15:52:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T07:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=312852"},"modified":"2025-09-13T15:52:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T07:52:31","slug":"albania-appoints-ai-minister-named-diella-to-handle-tenders-eliminating-human-involvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=312852","title":{"rendered":"Albania appoints AI minister named Diella to handle tenders; eliminating human involvement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/data\/cache\/noticias\/106790\/0x0\/edi.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/data\/cache\/noticias\/106790\/760x480\/edi.jpg\" alt=\"Diella will make the Albanian government corruption-free, Rama argued\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>TIRANE, Sept 13 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) &#8212; Albania&#8217;s Prime Minister Edi Rama has appointed a new \u201cminister\u201d created with artificial intelligence to manage public tenders. Named Diella, or \u201csun\u201d in Albanian, the AI-powered official is a virtual entity whose role is to eliminate human involvement in the bidding process to avoid further corruption scandals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diella&#8217;s primary function is to manage and award all public contracts, making the process \u201c100% free of corruption\u201d and \u201cperfectly transparent,\u201d the Prime Minister explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initially a virtual assistant on the country&#8217;s e-Albania platform, Diella helped citizens with government services and documents. \u201cDiella is the first member of the cabinet who is not physically present. She is virtually created by artificial intelligence,\u201d Rama said. Hence, Albania will be \u201ca country where public tenders are 100% free of corruption.\u201d Diella will also have the power to \u201chire talent from around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBids have been definitively removed from the hands of ministers. Diella will be the official of the Public Ministry. Bids are 100% incorruptible, all funds are 100% legible. This is one of her functions,\u201d Rama also pointed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move has drawn both support and criticism. Prime Minister Rama&#8217;s government, which won a landslide election, sees the appointment as a crucial step toward its goal of joining the European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the opposition has called the appointment unconstitutional and a \u201cbuffoonery,\u201d arguing that a virtual entity cannot legally hold a ministerial position. Legal experts also say that the official status of the AI minister needs to be clarified. &#8212; NNN-MERCOPRESS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIRANE, Sept 13 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) &#8212; Albania&#8217;s Prime Minister Edi Rama has appointed a new \u201cminister\u201d created with artificial intelligence to manage public tenders. Named Diella, or \u201csun\u201d in Albanian, the AI-powered official is a virtual entity whose role is to eliminate human involvement in the bidding process to avoid further corruption scandals. Diella&#8217;s primary function [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":312853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312852"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312854,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312852\/revisions\/312854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/312853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}