Currently, just under 40 percent of Illinois households have filled out the census, mostly online. In Illinois, this year’s count is especially important because the state stands to lose up to two congressional seats and billions of federal dollars for Medicaid, food stamps, roads, bridges, and education.
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.