As far as politics can be reduced to a problem of optimization, surely machines could do a better job than humans.
Pretty much, but I advocate this only in an opt-in, accountable fashion. Or as we say in the IT industry - user acceptance. :)
In which I examine some of the latest development in automated fact checking, prediction markets for policies and propose we get rich voting for robot politicians.
http://pirate.london/2016/09/why-we-may-elect-our-new-ai-overlords/