“This is of great importance to us because government and government enterprises is our largest employment sector by number of jobs,” said Andrea Runge, CEO of Lincoln Economic Advancement and Development. “We employ 1,489 people within government and government enterprises, so the loss of Logan Correctional Center will be a projected 28.4 percent impact in our largest employment sector.”
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.