Experts raise concerns as Albania pits AI-generated Minister

23 SEPTEMBER 2025

Albania announced that an AI-generated Minister would take charge of a new public tenders portfolio.
“Diella” is touted as the world’s first virtual Minister, and Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama promised the appointment would end rampant corruption in government contracts — a major obstacle to the Balkan nation’s accession to the European Union.
But serious technical, political and ethical questions have been raised about the virtual lawmaker.
“Diella never sleeps, she doesn’t need to be paid, she has no personal interests, she has no cousins, because cousins are a big issue in Albania,” according to the Prime Minister, whose country ranks 80th out of 180 in Transparency International’s corruption index.
The exact workings of Diella remain unknown, but it likely relies on Large Language Models (LLM) to respond to queries, similar to the vast amounts of text that power generative chatbots such as ChatGPT and Gemini.
But if input data is incomplete, biased, or outdated, the AI’s decisions will reflect those flaws, and it “might misinterpret documents, wrongly flag a supplier, or miss signs of collusion.