“I think mandates are just polarizing,” said state Sen. Patrick Joyce of Essex, one of six Democrats in the chamber to vote against the measure. “You can look at whether a mandate is one way or the other, it’s a mandate and I think that in today’s political climate, that’s pushing people to do things that they wouldn’t normally do.”
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.