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Albania's AI-generated minister "Diella"  insisting its role is to help people not replace them, during its first appearance in Parliament in September.

Albania's AI-generated minister "Diella" insisting its role is to help people, not replace them, in Parliament in September.

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Pilita Clark

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People rightly spend a lot of time worrying about

whether AI will ever be smart enough to destroy us

. But what if it has already started?

This thought occurred as I surveyed a list I have been keeping of notable AI blunders in 2025 or, to be more precise, the humans brought low by using what we are told is today’s relatively basic artificial intelligence.

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