{"id":229909,"date":"2026-01-29T11:26:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T07:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=229909"},"modified":"2026-01-29T12:26:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:26:47","slug":"creators-of-the-worlds-first-ai-minister-accused-of-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/229909\/","title":{"rendered":"Creators of the world\u2019s first AI minister accused of corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The avatar known as Diella, billed as the world&rsquo;s first government minister to be generated by artificial intelligence, was supposed to help cut Albania&rsquo;s endemic corruption.<\/p>\n<p>But there&rsquo;s a glitch. The leaders of the agency that built it stand accused of bid-rigging public contracts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/27\/world\/europe\/albania-ai-corruption-graft.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>The director of Albania&rsquo;s National Agency for Information Society (AKSHI) and his deputy have been placed under house arrest by the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor&rsquo;s Office. They are suspected of fraudulently securing and unfairly winning public contracts worth &euro;7.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>Wearing traditional garb and an enigmatic smile, Diella has become the face of Prime Minister Edi Rama&rsquo;s efforts to rein in graft as Albania seeks to join the European Union.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The avatar known as Diella, billed as the world&rsquo;s first government minister to be generated by artificial intelligence, was supposed to help cut Albania&rsquo;s endemic corruption. But there&rsquo;s a glitch. The leaders of the agency that built it stand accused of bid-rigging public contracts, The New York Times writes. The director of Albania&rsquo;s National Agency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":229882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229910,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229909\/revisions\/229910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}