Could an AI Ever Be Elected President?

A highly coveted and highly controversial role, one traditionally held by humans. The use of "traditionally" is a recently added modifier, one necessary when discussing a Wired article suggesting that the role of president might one day be filled by an artificial intelligence (AI). Others have pushed the idea of an AI president before, with one group even fighting for Watson, IBM's AI, to run for the position in 2016. This massive, strange, sci-fi political makeover would completely upend the idea of traditional political discourse, so why are so many considering it? One major reason is level-headedness.