The audit found that Illinois failed to follow federal recommendations in May 2020 to prevent some of the fraud. “Then we get the, ‘Oh, this happened everywhere else in all the other states’ from the administration,” state Sen. Chapin Rose said. “No, other states implemented federal protocols to close the door and try to attempt to limit the fraud.”
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.