With so much buzzy tech floating around these days, it's only natural for national governments to experiment as well.

For the past few years, the country of El Salvador's been experimenting with Bitcoin as legal tender, a woefully ineffective system that's had he opposite of its stated effects. In the United States, president Donald Trump is experimenting with a $500 billion AI infrastructure project, a massive campaign that's sat dormant for half a year.

And in Albania, which is home to 2.7 million people, the government is hoping that AI models like ChatGPT can take over for corrupt government ministers.

Per Politico, the Albanian prime minister Edi Rama suggested back in July that AI might be a handy tool in his efforts to stamp out government corruption and increase transparency.

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