Artificial intelligence in the process of European integration

The digital transformation process has long started in Albania and all public and private actors are committed to digital transformation. Albania is awaiting the opening of negotiations for EU membership and therefore should harmonize its legal framework with EU law and standards presented in the EU Acquis Communautaire. Artificial Intelligence has been made possible in many aspects of improving governance in Albania. Some enterprises and public institutions are experimenting with Artificial Intelligence to improve their services and processes. Although the development of Artificial Intelligence has begun to take important steps forward, it is again not at high levels as in some countries with developed infrastructure in this field. Artificial Intelligence in Albania is still in the initial stage of development, but it has the potential to increase its impact and use in many areas of society and industry. Artificial Intelligence may have a very important role in supporting the extension of the EU Acquis in Albania. The implementation of an Artificial Intelligence system would make it possible to automate the work processes of the approximation of related legal acts, such as the assessment of the impact of the EU Acquis, the identification of gaps, analysis, and even the provision of some pre-legal (drafting) and other supporting activities. This paper presents an original work that proposes the configuration of a platform for public institutions that use Artificial Intelligence to reduce the administrative burden and speed up the process of transposition of EU legislation. To enable this, the literature has been studied as well as many cases of implementation in different sectors of economic and social activity. Simultaneously, a targeted examination of AI's component structure and its tools was conducted. To achieve this goal of the paper, some of the digital governance platforms in some countries in Europe as well as in Albania have been investigated and analyzed to understand how they work.