Samir Mayekar, managing director of the Polsky Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago: "We are living in an era of transformative public investment in research and industrial policy that can further position Chicago as our country's hub for scientific breakthroughs. So let's keep going — together."
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.