Could Governments Run By Artificial Intelligence Be A Good Thing?

Put Skynet from The Terminator movies to the back of your mind for a minute, and stay with me on this one. Certain political leaders are reminding us of their fragile humanity with increasing frequency these days. Prone to wild acts of emotion and unable to resist the urge to push their personal agenda at the expense of the greater good, it's enough to make the concept of an AI-controlled government sound utopian by comparison. I'm not quite naïve enough to think we're already at a point where our human leaders could be replaced by an all-seeing, all-knowing, all-doing machine, but artificial intelligence and machine learning are becoming ever more tantalizing in their potential to simplify, accelerate, and improve many aspects of society and our lives. Governments are beginning to realize this.