Ted Dabrowski, president of the nonprofit fiscal watchdog Wirepoints, said the upgrade is deceiving. “The only reason that we got an upgrade from Moody’s is because we were flooded with almost $150 billion in money from the federal government. That is the reason we got an upgrade, not because the government is doing anything better today.”
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.