During a committee hearing on the budget, state Sen. Chapin Rose asked how a looming union contract with state workers will impact the budget. “This is going to hit us eventually, right, presumably in ‘24. So is it the … departments, plural, are gonna have to live within the means of this budget or are we anticipating another supplemental down the road whenever the contract is released?”
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.