Pierarakakis may have burst from his jealousy that he did not launch the first “AI minister against corruption” himself, and that, on the contrary, this (nationally) annoying state in the north called Albania took the lead. But Edi Rama also seems to have assigned himself a pedagogical mission by giving human form to the already existing e-Albania platform, which is something like the Greek gov.
“Diella will not be bribed, has no political ambitions and will apply the same rules to everyone” declared Rama presenting the “Minister Diella”. We calmed down. We already feel the warmth: the word “system” (common in the expression “the system threw me out…”) was cold and impersonal. While if the state creates a digital persona that can also speak to the citizen, the warm, human relationship between the citizen and the state is restored. Isn’t that so?
Approximately. Complex algorithms may not be “bribed” but are manipulated by their engineers (and the bosses of the engineers) – this is well-known. Moreover, these algorithms are not free at all from errors and shortcomings. If “the system doesn’t kick you out, but Dellia, Alice, or Gudrun does,” your nerves might stretch even more. And as for political ambitions; indeed, so far, machines don’t seem to have such “political” ones, but they don’t have responsibility either!
Moral lesson: You can curse at human bureaucracy. Not the electronic kind. You “swallow your anger” silently in front of the remote control, at the screen of the anthropomorphic system. And you think you’re an idiot.
Something that helps the true administrators.