The National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems (NCPERS) presented The Honorable Michael Frerichs, Illinois State Treasurer, with its 2023 Policymaker of the Year Award. The award, presented annually during NCPERS Legislative Conference, recognizes the efforts of a policymaker who has had a positive impact on public pensions or whose efforts have contributed to improvements in retirement security more broadly.
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.