Aistrope, the CEO of Chicago-based Meeting Tomorrow and a campaign contributor to Mayor Lori Lightfoot, reached out to her office in late March. The next day, he said, he was on a video call with top Chicago school district officials — the first step before sealing a more than $1.6 million deal to buy used laptops and older-model iPads from Aistrope’s firm.
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.