“We are going to miss out on opportunities because we can’t supply the electricity at an affordable rate,” state Rep. Dan Caulkins said. “And if we don’t fall in line with the rest of the country, we are going to be the rust bucket. We will continue to decline. Companies are gonna leave.”
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.