Commentary
This is not a joke. Albania just appointed the world’s first fully AI-generated government minister. Her name is Diella, which is Albanian for sun, and she has been officially appointed as Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence with the task of overseeing given public procurement—one of the country’s most corruption-plagued systems. Diella is a digital avatar designed to interface between the public and the algorithms beneath her virtual skin. She appears wearing modest, traditional Albanian clothing, a headscarf, and moves her hands in natural-looking, human-like gestures. She speaks with a steady, reassuring tone in perfect Albanian. Sometimes her left eye doesn’t quite blink at the same time as her right eye—that’s the kind of glitch that is typical in AI-generated videos, but otherwise she looks and sounds like a pleasant, middle-aged woman on a screen.
