Citizens assemblies, also called minipublics, have been trialed for years in many places and in many different topics. In real life these people do not produce

Citizens assemblies, also called minipublics, have been trialed for years in many places and in many different topics. In real life these people do not produce legislation/recommendations that are of less quality than politicians. I recommend a book called "open democracy" that goes into detail about this kind of decision making processes. The OCED has also done a lot of work and has a few reports on the matter too, if you look at their recommendations for "the future of democracy". Some big experiments in this area have been done in France as recent as a few months ago, in Ireland, in Iceland and the European union as a whole did a very big one a few years ago.