TIRANA, Sept 25 /ATA/-By Maela Marini/ Prime Minister Edi Rama, in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly, focused on artificial intelligence, highlighting both the benefits and the dangers posed by its use.
Rama stressed that Albania is not a developer of cutting‑edge models, but a nation that has already experienced the future which others are still discussing.
Prime Minister Rama, speaking at the United Nations General Assembly, cautioned that artificial intelligence has the potential to enter a citizen’s mind, imitate a trusted voice and construct realities tailored to individual fears — and to replicate this millions of times simultaneously.
According to him, the most immediate and serious danger does not lie in artificial intelligence ceasing to persuade humanity
Prime Minister Rama warned that the greatest danger posed by artificial intelligence is its perfect obedience to the wrong individual. He said the challenge unfolds on three levels: while public debate imagines machines that might awaken with ambition and turn against their creators, today’s systems do not wake up with hatred but magnify human impulses. They harbour no ambitions of their own, yet serve those of others; they carry no flags, yet can be deployed by states; they tell no lies for themselves, yet can propagate billions of falsehoods on behalf of others.
At the same time, Rama stressed that the economic incentives surrounding artificial intelligence increasingly reward the substitution of human effort rather than the expansion and growth of human capacity.
Rama cautioned that when success is measured solely by how much work machines remove from human effort, institutions may become more efficient but people less capable. He warned that a civilisation which excludes effort may outsource knowledge, and one that entrusts knowledge to others may ultimately surrender judgement. Rama added that artificial intelligence could be built to learn rather than merely respond, and to guide rather than simply command.
Rama argued that artificial intelligence should be built to strengthen human capacity rather than make people dependent upon it. He stressed that the key question is not how quickly a machine completes a task, but who understands the decision, who can challenge it, and who bears responsibility when that decision proves wrong.
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