> Basically, you need a better politician, but the selection pressures for best politician are somewhat self defeating. > Either you build one as an AI or you build one out of multitude of people.

AI is not the only possible way to mitigate the problem, here is another one:

"Best way to pick legislators? At random. " http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/best-way-t...