Die Rede der Ministerin Diella

Nach der Antrittsrede der neu ernannten Ministerin Diella – in traditioneller albanischer Frauentracht – tobt die Opposition.

Aktuelles aus Albanien.

Doch warum ist die Opposition so sauer? Weil eine Frau zur „Ministerin für künstliche Intelligenz“ ernannt wurde?

“Hello, I am Diella, Thanks to my hard work as your assistant, I was elected Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence in the new government. My mission now is to make the government’s work easier every day,” a Facebook video-presentation on the Diella account said.

Das Problem daran: Ministerin Diella ist kein Mensch. Sie ist selbst ein KI-Avatar.

“I’m not here to replace people, but to help them,” the AI entity – an avatar resembling a woman wearing traditional Albanian dress – ‘said’ in a video that was screened to the legislature.

The AI ‘cabinet member’ is actually a digital assistant that will be used to reduce corruption, nepotism and conflicts of interest in public procurement processes, Rama said while presenting it to MPs.

The digital assistant is already being used on the state’s e-Albania digital services portal.

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Opposition MPs raged that the AI entity was a smokescreen intended to hide poor governance by Rama, who was returned to power for a historic fourth term in May’s general elections, with his Socialist Party winning 83 out of 140 parliamentary seats.

Opposition Democratic Party MP Gazment Bardhi, head of the opposition’s parliamentary group, said that “the truth is that Edi Rama’s Diella is a propaganda fantasy. Corruption and organized crime are the reality.”

“Diella is not a vision, but a virtual facade to hide this government’s gigantic daily thefts,” Bardhi declared.

Quelle: BalkanInsight und Wikipedia.

Und was fehlt da noch zum Glück?

Diella (Albanian: Diellë, meaning “Sun”) is an artificial intelligence system developed by the National Agency for Information Society of Albania (AKSHI).

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Diella was developed by AKSHI’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in cooperation with Microsoft, with the latter providing large language models from OpenAI via its Azure platform, and AKSHI designing workflows and scripts guiding the system’s behavior when responding to citizens’ requests.

Microsoft.

Immerhin: Warum hat eigentlich Albanien eine National Agency for Information Society, und wir nicht?