Illinois needs to gain more ground in putting its fiscal house in order as a burdensome pension tab, population losses, and economic uncertainty threaten progress that has driven a round of positive rating actions. That's the assessment offered by the legislature?s non-partisan Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability in its annual three-year budget forecast.
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.