State Monitoring Can Be Fully Entrusted to Artificial Intelligence, Says Pashinyan

The Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, visited the Ministry of Finance to discuss the summary report of the ministry's activities for 2025 and the work accomplished.

Finance Minister Vahe Hovhannisyan presented the ministry's priority directions for activities in 2025, comprehensively addressing the process of ensuring the established performance indicators within those directions and the recorded progress.

Addressing the digitization process, Prime Minister Pashinyan emphasized that it has been, and will continue to be, a priority. According to the country's leader, digitization should also imply the integration of artificial intelligence.

“There are numerous services and departments in our public system whose job is to monitor. All functions of monitoring can be placed on artificial intelligence, because there is no one who can do it better than that – monitoring means paying attention to the ongoing processes, and human monitoring will always overlook something. Therefore, we can set such a task that wherever monitoring is done, it will be performed solely by the tools of artificial intelligence. That is to say, the task is set, and artificial intelligence does it,” noted the leader of the country.

It was reported that work has commenced on the implementation of a new electronic procurement system, which aims to ensure the complete digitization of procedures, improvement of the procurement policy, and increased transparency. It was also reported that during the reporting year, the volume of procurements by the public management system was decreased by one individual.

The Prime Minister inquired about the process of implementing the Electronic Procurement System, to which Deputy Minister Avag Avanesyan responded that it would operate in 2027. “The system will work for 10 years. This time we have not acquired a system that must be maintained later; rather, we have acquired a comprehensive package. In other words, we say that the system must continuously operate for 10 years,” said the deputy minister.

Nikol Pashinyan asked whether there would be paper in circulation under the system's conditions. The deputy minister responded that it is almost excluded.