Prime Minister Edi Rama says that artificial intelligence will replace a large part of human services in local and central government.
After revealing that the approximation of legislation with the European Union will be done through "ChatGPT", Rama also presented the artificial assistant initiative for the provision of services through the "e-Albania" portal.
But artificial intelligence, according to Rama, will also be used to avoid corruption with tenders. The head of the Socialist Party said during his speech at the SP Congress that he will present changes in the structure of public procurement to the Assembly.
According to Rama, Albania has archaic procedures and an excessively large number of public procurement commissioners.
Excerpt from Rama's speech:
For all those who forget why they have the chair given to them by this political force, and then when justice catches them, they expect the protection of the party. PS gives you the chair for the purposes announced publicly, to keep that chair, it is your responsibility and honor. But regardless of how many corrupt individuals will be punished by the new justice, corruption will continue to remain a problem until modernization and the quality of services does not reach the extent of transformation. But time has given us the blessing of digital technology and now of Artificial Intelligence.
Albania no longer has counters, like few countries in Europe today. Fortunately, the counters of shame, which were the mortgages, were also closed. A total of 11 million services were provided until November of this year.
I have heard that they say, corruption in queues is good, but tenders. In Albania, a number of tenders are held that is the size of a medium-sized municipality. The number of commissioners is the number of a medium-sized municipality, thousands and thousands. The processes are archaic, despite the fact that the law has advanced. We are working to bring to the parliament a new project for introducing artificial intelligence in procurement and changing the procurement structure. Within this mandate, we will introduce procurement with Artificial Intelligence, which means that it will be procured with procedures where there will be no contact with commissioners and anyone above will not be able to influence the tender. Because the data will be taken by artificial intelligence and not by the company, and all this will be transparent to everyone.