Albania is unstoppable. Diella, the new IA minister, is pregnant (with 83 children)

The Prime Minister of Albania announced that the recently appointed digital minister created by the government for the area of ​​Artificial Intelligence is “pregnant with 83 children”.

It is another surreal announcement that reaches them from Albania: that of the World, Deliawho has been serving as the country’s Minister of Artificial Intelligence for just over a week, is pregnantannounced the prime minister Eddie Rama.

According to local media, Rama made the comment in a joking tone, during a conference in Berlin, having detailed at the time that Diella’s “babies” will be virtual assistants for the 83 deputies of the Socialist Party, in power.

“For the first time, Diella is pregnant – and with 83 children. Each of them will serve as an assistant to the deputies, will participate in parliamentary sessionswill record everything that happens and will make suggestions to members of parliament. These children will have all the knowledge of their mother”, explained the ruler.

According to Rama, these virtual assistants will help the deputies in their daily tasks, namely monitor meetings and provide updates when politicians are absent.

“For example, if they go for coffee and forget to go back to workthis ‘son’ will report what was said in your absence and will indicate who they should respond to”, said Rama, amidst laughter.

According to , the opposition strongly criticized Rama’s announcement. According to the Albanian press, the former minister Tritan Shehu classified the ad as “in bad taste”, accusing the prime minister of wanting to “keep the people in a trance”.

Diella was first introduced in January, as virtual assistant on the government portal e-Albaniawhere he will have “helped with more than a million requests”. The chatbot supports citizens and companies in obtaining official documents and answering administrative questions.

In August, Edi Rama Albania stated that he intended to combat corruption and speed up the accession process to the European Union.

Rama argues that technology can be “the most efficient member” of the Government, and even suggested the creation of a Ministry fully managed by AI.

“Like this there would be no nepotism or conflicts of interest”, stated the head of the Albanian government, for whom it is not even impossible to imagine a country with a digital prime minister.

No sooner said than done. Last week, Rama said the country’s Ministry of Artificial Intelligence would be lled by Diela herselfan LLM (a Large Language Model, like ChatGPT) developed by the National Agency for the Information Society in collaboration with Microsoft.

Diella’s name, which in Albanian means “sun”, not on the official list of ministers approved by President Bajram Begaj on September 15, but a decree gave Edi Rama “full responsibility” to create the virtual minister.

Diella even addressed the Albanian parliament via a video message: “Some say I’m ‘unconstitutional’ because I’m not a human being. That hurt me. But I remember that the real danger to constitutions was never machines, it was the inhumane decisions of those in power.”

While some deputies from Rama’s party applauded the speech, those from the opposition reacted with indignation, slamming their hands on the tables when the avatar appeared on the screen — possibly also fearing the day when they themselves might be replaced by AI avatars. In Albania, that day is long gone.