AI personhood isn’t inevitable — and Missouri can do something about it | Opinion
April 28, 2026
Could Missourians soon have AI politicians or AI spouses? Most Missourians may relegate such things to dystopian sci-fi novels, but the truth is, they’re closer than we might think.
The country of Albania, one of Greece’s northern neighbors, made global news last fall when its Prime Minister Edi Rama appointed the world’s first virtual artificial intelligence minister. Introduced early last year as a text-based virtual assistant for online government services, the AI bot, named Diella, was later developed into an animated avatar based on the voice and likeness of an actress, and appointed the country’s minister of state for artificial intelligence.
