I am curious about what the Albanian prime minister means when he says he is appointing a chatbot to be a minister. I am not crazy knowledgeable about AI, though I have lurked here for a while, and I don’t know if this is a new use case or not. Does anyone has any sense of what this actually means/if this is worth being concerned about in any way or if its just a PR stunt or something equally as unconcerning as a PR stunt. My read of it is that it seems like it is a helper tool that they are calling a cabinet minister for political reasons. It doesn’t seem like there is a lot of information out there right now about what they actually mean by this but maybe in a few days somebody more knowledgeable than me could clear this up for me.
Apparently the Albanian government’s chief strategy to reduce corruption in the civil service, is to make it unnecessary for Albanians to interact with human beings in the civil service. Instead they’ll just talk to the AI (“Diella”) whenever they want to get a permit and so on. So Diella herself is just a frontend to an Albanian government website, not that different to the chatbots that can be found on many other government and corporate websites. Calling her a government minister is a bit unprecedented, but ultimately it’s just another example of human society trying to integrate AI by treating it as a person, in this case assigning the AI a place in society that was previously only occupied by human beings.
I am curious about what the Albanian prime minister means when he says he is appointing a chatbot to be a minister. I am not crazy knowledgeable about AI, though I have lurked here for a while, and I don’t know if this is a new use case or not. Does anyone has any sense of what this actually means/if this is worth being concerned about in any way or if its just a PR stunt or something equally as unconcerning as a PR stunt. My read of it is that it seems like it is a helper tool that they are calling a cabinet minister for political reasons. It doesn’t seem like there is a lot of information out there right now about what they actually mean by this but maybe in a few days somebody more knowledgeable than me could clear this up for me.
Apparently the Albanian government’s chief strategy to reduce corruption in the civil service, is to make it unnecessary for Albanians to interact with human beings in the civil service. Instead they’ll just talk to the AI (“Diella”) whenever they want to get a permit and so on. So Diella herself is just a frontend to an Albanian government website, not that different to the chatbots that can be found on many other government and corporate websites. Calling her a government minister is a bit unprecedented, but ultimately it’s just another example of human society trying to integrate AI by treating it as a person, in this case assigning the AI a place in society that was previously only occupied by human beings.