“You go home and you tell people ‘there’s a convicted double murderer serving on the prisoner review board voting to let violent criminals out of prison,’ they look at you like you’ve got three eyes,” state Sen. Jason Plummer said. “The people of Illinois would be shocked if they knew what was happening in Springfield and this is example 1A and it needs to change.”
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.