The first AI government minister

FLORENCE – When Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama recently announced his new cabinet, it was not his choice of finance minister or foreign minister that gained the most attention. The biggest news was Rama’s appointment of an AI-powered bot as the new minister of public procurement. “Diella” will oversee and allocate all public tenders that the government assigns to private firms. “(It) is the first member of government who is not physically present, but virtually created by artificial intelligence,” Rama declared. She will help make Albania “a country where public procurement is 100 percent corruption-free.” At once evocative and provocative, the move reminds us that those who place the greatest hope in technology tend to be among those with the least confidence in human nature. But more to the point, the appointment of Diella is evidence that the supposed cure for whatever ails democracy is increasingly taking the form of digital authoritarianism. Such interventions might appeal to Silicon Valley oligarchs, but democrats everywhere should be alarmed. The conceptual basiWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times