Excellent point. AI politicians and more automated govt bureaucracy--or only AI-assisted human politicians and govt employees (both more feasible and desirable, at least initially?)--would come with their own partially familiar, but increasingly unprecedented, pros and cons--relative to the polarization and gridlock that has resulted from:

1) increased politicization of the decennial reapportionment process (i.e. now dysfunctional partisan gerrymandering of fed and state House districts nationwide after each US census); and

2) the now almost unlimited ability of wealthy special interests to buy and own the so-called "representatives" of "we, the people" who--at least for the moment--are still allowed (and encouraged) to think we still choose our so-called representatives, instead of what used to be our representatives choosing us (their voters) via extreme gerrymandering and unlimited election campaign contributions. 

I now think I might prefer devils we don't know over ones we do.