I was thinking about this a while back when a comic on convictions was posted here and one of the comments asked if we should trust someone in politics who hold

I was thinking about this a while back when a comic on convictions was posted here and one of the comments asked if we should trust someone in politics who holds strong convictions or someone who bends with the wind. If a politician holds to their convictions they are derided for being inflexible, if they change their mind they are accused of just being in it for the votes. Can't we just let machine learning take over and train a bunch of digital politicians about the stuff we want to happen? Or are we so used to being told what to think by charismatic leaders that we couldn't live in a data driven political system? (Only somewhat tongue in cheek.)