France, Sept. 12 -- Albania is looking to artificial intelligence to tackle corruption in public finance, as Prime Minister Edi Rama appoints the world's first AI-generated government minister to oversee public tenders.

Presenting his new cabinet on Thursday following a big election victory in May, Rama introduced the new team member, named "Diella"-which means "sun" in Albanian.

"Diella is the first [cabinet] member who is not physically present, but virtually created by artificial intelligence," Rama said at a meeting of his Socialist Party.

Diella will be entrusted with all decisions on public tenders, making them "100-percent corruption-free and every public fund submitted to the tender procedure will be perfectly transparent", he ...