FLASH
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In fact, "Minister Diella" achieved her first results very quickly. Within a week, she fulfilled two Albanian-style "objectives."
It was a hot July morning and, together with a foreign USAID official, we were supposed to be at a minister's office at 8:00 AM, as part of a project on transparency in governance.
The minister's secretary, a blonde about 1.80 meters tall, met us at the door of the ministry and escorted us directly to the boss's office, without even going through the security check.
The office was about 20 meters long and, in one corner, the minister was holding a plastic duck with water and watering the flowers. Surprisingly, he was wearing white socks and no shoes, freely enjoying the office parquet.
Even though he put on his shoes, the sweaty smell of his socks remained in the air.
Out of courtesy, the diplomat approached him, shook his hand, and began to compliment him on the beautiful flowers. Suddenly, he stopped and asked: “Mr. Minister, why are you watering the plastic flowers?” The minister could not contain himself, blushed with shame, and, to get out of the situation, shouted at the secretary: “Why did you replace my natural sunflowers with artificial flowers?!”
This event came to mind yesterday, when I saw in the Assembly the minister's colleagues watering plastic flowers, as soon as the newest government minister "Diella" appeared on the monitor, about whom Edi Rama claims: Diella is a government assistant with Artificial Intelligence (AI), who functions as a "virtual minister". Albania is the first country in the world to have given an AI an official "ministerial" role, which constitutes a unique innovation at a global level.
In fact, the “Sun Ministry” achieved its first results very quickly. Within a week, it fulfilled two Albanian “objectives”:
It occupied the front pages of international media and fished out the opposition and derailed it, causing clashes in the Parliament and depriving it of the opportunity for a public debate about the "Rama 4" government program.
In June, the opposition promised a revolution, but canceled it, apparently because of the wedding season. Now, it has likely been postponed until after the Christmas or turkey holidays.
The contrast is sad when you see the innovation of artificial intelligence, compared to ministers watering plastic flowers with white socks in their offices.
Perhaps Fukuyama was right in his book "The Last Man" when he said that the end of humanity could come the day when technological development moves faster than human development.
I was really worried when I saw a deputy running towards the monitor, pressing buttons in the hope that it would shut down the intelligence of the “Sun” as if it were just an artificial sunflower. O great God, save us from fools. I am afraid that Albania is still in the era of the artificial sunflower and not the digital Sun.
PS Out of respect for journalistic and political ethics, I am not mentioning the name of the Democratic Party minister, but the event is true, personally experienced and witnessed by other participants in that meeting.
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