CDO's Open Forum on AI: How Ai is reshaping school, work, the arts, society and democracy

The Open Forum’s discussion on democracy became particularly notable when we turned our attention to the case of Diella, the world’s first AI that was, in a way, appointed to an Albanian cabinet-level government post. Initially, the concept of an AI “minister” seems to be a daring trial of efficiency and neutrality at the same time. But as the discussion in the forum pointed out, the appointment of Diella is the cause of many troubling questions: Who takes the blame when an AI assists in making policy? Is it possible for a machine—built, educated, and maintained by humans—to be absolutely…