{"id":1641,"date":"2025-09-14T05:18:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T05:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2025-09-15T18:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:48:18","slug":"grok-how-do-i-run-a-country-heres-how-ai-is-quietly-taking-over-governments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/14\/grok-how-do-i-run-a-country-heres-how-ai-is-quietly-taking-over-governments\/","title":{"rendered":"Grok, how do I run a country? Here\u2019s how AI is quietly taking over governments"},"content":{"rendered":"
From tax offices to cabinet rooms, artificial intelligence is already crossing the line from servant to sovereign<\/strong><\/p>\n A new minister has joined the cabinet of a small European country. Her name is Diella. She doesn’t eat, drink, smoke, walk, or breathe – and, according to the prime minister who hired her, she doesn’t take bribes either. Diella isn’t human, and she’s not quite a robot either: she’s an algorithm. And as of September, she is officially Albania’s minister for public procurement.<\/p>\n For the first time in history, a government has given a cabinet-level post to artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n Sounds like sci-fi, but the appointment is real and has set a precedent. <\/p>\n Are you ready to be governed by AI? <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Until recently, Diella lived quietly on Albania’s e-government portal, answering routine citizen questions and fetching documents.<\/p>\n Then Prime Minister Edi Rama promoted her to ministerial rank, tasking her with something far more important: deciding who wins state contracts – a function worth billions in public money and notorious for bribery, favoritism, and political kickbacks.<\/p>\n Rama has framed Diella as a clean break with the country’s history of graft – even calling her “impervious to bribes.”<\/em><\/p>\n But that’s rhetoric, not a guarantee. Whether her resistance to corruption is technically or legally enforceable is unclear. If she were hacked, poisoned with false data, or subtly manipulated from inside, there might be no fingerprints.<\/p>\n The plan is for Diella to evaluate bids, cross-check company histories, flag suspicious patterns, and eventually award tenders automatically. Officials say this will slash the bureaucracy’s human footprint, save time, and make procurement immune to political pressure.<\/p>\n But the legal mechanics are murky. Nobody knows how much human oversight she will have, or who is accountable if she makes a mistake. There is no court precedent for suing an algorithmic minister. There is also no law describing how she can be removed from office.<\/p>\n Critics warn that if her training data contains traces of old corruption, she might simply reproduce the same patterns in code, but faster. Others point out that Albania has not explained how Diella’s decisions can be appealed, or even if they can be appealed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Public reaction to Diella has been mixed, with fascination tempered by unease.<\/p>\n “Even Diella will be corrupted in Albania,”<\/em> one viral post read.<\/p>\n Critics warn she might not be cleansing the system – just hiding the dirt inside the code.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Albania says it will keep a human in the loop – but hasn’t explained how, or who. There is no legal framework. There is no appeals process. There is no off-switch.<\/p>\n And if Diella appears to work, others might follow. The copycats wouldn’t arrive with press conferences or cabinet photo ops. They could slip quietly into procurement systems, hidden under euphemisms like “decision-support,”<\/em> running entire state functions long before anyone dares call them ministers.<\/p>\n Albania may be the first to seat an algorithm beside ministers, but it isn’t alone in trying to wire code into the state – most are just doing it quietly, in fragments, and behind thicker curtains.<\/p>\n In the United Arab Emirates<\/strong>, there’s already a Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence – a human, Omar Sultan Al Olama – tasked with reshaping the country’s entire digital bureaucracy around machine learning. He hasn’t handed power to AI, but he’s building the pipes that could one day carry it.<\/p>\nThe Albanian experiment<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\n <\/figcaption><\/figure>\nWhat could possibly go wrong?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\n <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\nWho’s handing power over to code – and how far they’ve gone<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n