While House Minority Leader Jim Durkin said remote legislating should be allowed, he said lawmakers need to get back to work. State Rep. Mike Zalewski agreed. “We as a legislature have I think a duty to physically be present as much as we possibly can. I think the public demands it of us. I think constitutionally we’re demanded to be physically present as much as we can.”
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.