Albania wanted to showcase the future. Instead, it may have created Europe’s most awkward legal test case for the artificial intelligence era.

Last September, Prime Minister Edi Rama’s government introduced β€œDiella,” an AI avatar presented as Albania’s first AI-powered minister overseeing public procurement. It was framed as bold innovation for a small Balkan nation, proof that Albania was modern, reform-driven and ready for the European Union. But Diella had a human face. And that face belonged to Albanian actress Anila Bisha.

Bisha is now suing the government over her right to control her own voice and likeness. She says she never agreed to become a political symbol.

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