Diella the AI Minister: Can You Automate Corruption?

Albania just appointed the world’s first AI minister — a digital avatar named Diella, tasked with making government tenders “100% corruption free.” Sounds futuristic, until you remember algorithms aren’t incorruptible, just unaccountable. This episode unpacks the politics of algorithmic governance, Baudrillard’s hyperreality, and why outsourcing ethics to code is more spectacle than solution. Governance by bot: what could possibly go wrong?