AI Minister Runs Procurement

Albania appointed an AI bot, 'Diella,' as a cabinet member to manage and award all public tenders, pitched as immune to bribery and pressure. This replaces human discretion with algorithmic decision‑making in a corruption‑prone domain, raising questions about transparency, appeal rights, and who is legally accountable for errors or bias. — It spotlights the arrival of algorithmic governance in core state functions and forces debates on auditability, legality, and democratic control of code that allocates public money.