The team got started in early May with just a few medical school students and doctors and has grown to about 200 volunteers. It’s the primary source of care for those staying temporarily at police stations, and leaders estimates the group has spent $15,000 on medications. “It’s a lot of resources being given out of the goodness of people’s hearts and with poor support from the city,” one volunteer doctor said.
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.