TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s prime minister on Friday tapped an Artificial Intelligence-generated ‘minister’ to tackle corruption in his new Cabinet, a project launched with the help of Microsoft .

Officially named Diella — the female form of the word for sun in the Albanian language — the new AI minister is a virtual entity.

Diella will be a “member of the Cabinet who is not present physically but has been created virtually," Prime Minister Edi Rama said in a post on Facebook.

Rama said the AI-generated bot would help ensure that “public tenders will be 100% free of corruption” and will help the government work faster and with full transparency.

Diella was created in cooperation with Microsoft, using AI’s up-to-date models and techniques to guarantee accuracy in offering the dutie

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