#12 Which Political System Is The Best? Watch 6 AI Models' Surprising Choices! | AI-swers

In AI-swers Episode #12, we asked six popular AI models one deceptively simple question: If a state were being built from scratch, which form of government would you choose? Each AI model had to choose only one political system — democracy, epistocracy, monarchy or oligarchy — explain why it preferred that system, and reject the other three. The result? A perfect 3–3 split between two very different visions of government. • Three AI models chose democracy, emphasizing public participation, equal political voice, individual rights and freedoms, institutional checks and balances, accountability, and democracy's ability to correct mistakes through elections. • Three AI models chose epistocracy, arguing that a newly established society could benefit from decision-making based more heavily on knowledge, expertise, data and rationality — while reducing the influence of populism and short-term thinking. • None chose monarchy or oligarchy. Across their answers, the models raised concerns about hereditary power, weak accountability, authoritarianism, concentrated political influence, favoritism, inequality and the risk that a small group could prioritize its own interests over society as a whole. The disagreement ultimately comes down to a much bigger question: Should every citizen have an equal political voice, or should knowledge and expertise give some people greater influence over government decisions? Democracy or epistocracy? Watch the full AI verdict, compare the reasoning of all six models, and then vote in the quizzes section below to tell us which political system YOU would choose. AI-swers asks the same complex question to leading AI models — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, Grok and Llama — and compares how differently artificial intelligence approaches the questions shaping politics, society and our future.