Attention in AI

I remain dissatisfied with our ability to focus attention.  I believe that this will become more and more of an issue as we scale up applications of AI.  One idea that might be useful is the concept of thinking about something in the right way.  Perhaps specialist AIs can be built around groups/clusters of specialized concepts, knowledge, and algorithms. What would the right clusters be?  How would we modify/learn them over time, perhaps dependent upon environment?