The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation - in charge of licensing for health care, occupational professionals and more than 100 other professions - recently announced it had reached an agreement to secure a new professional online licensing system. Lawmakers have expressed frustration with the delays to receive licenses reaching weeks, if not months, for many.
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.
Licensing about the only thing they police..