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WORLD’S FIRST

AI-GENERATED

POLITICIAN

The Institution of Electronics is naturally keen to
promote the weird, wonderful, bizarre and unusual
happenings in the world of electronics and this final Visit our
article surely fits the bill.

TThe Government of Albania has reportedly
appointed the world’s first AI-made, that is to say website!
not human, politician. It forms part of Prime Minister
Edi Rama’s vision of using AI as ‘an effective anti-
corruption tool’ at his Socialist Party’s assembly in Why not head down to our
Tirana where he informed ministers who would stay website and read more news in
and who would go.
our blog section?
The new AI-generated minister, named Diella, which
means ‘sun’ in Albanian, will be responsible for public
procurement, that is to say making decisions on Updated daily with hand-picked
tenders. The result will be that responsibility for those
articles from around the web...
tenders will now be taken out of the hands of existing
ministries.
It is envisaged that Diella will not be corruptible
and instead will be able to examine every tender in
which the government makes contracts with private
companies, and objectively assess each one. The
move represents a countermeasure to the country’s
high level of corruption in which gangs seek to
launder money from drugs and weapons trafficking
under the guise of public tenders.
Reference: Gittins, C., ‘Albania introduces First AI-made Minister’,
Electronic Specifier, 16th. September

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