To soothe inflationary costs, buff student supports and help fund its faculty hiring drive, the University of Illinois System is requesting an 11.7% larger infusion of state operating funds for next fiscal year: $731.77 million in operating funds and $682.9 million in capital funds from the state for use in fiscal 2024.
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.