Southern Illinois University Carbondale will receive $2.5 million of the $500 million in capital funding Governor JB Pritzker announced Wednesday for a statewide effort to boost research and innovation in Illinois. SIU’s “iFERM” hub will work to find new ways to utilize and market Illinois agricultural products.
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.