Will A.I. Write You a Traffic Ticket in Illinois?

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has signed legislation limiting use of A.I. in areas of government. The Land of Lincoln now prohibits A.I. usage for therapy and the state will not let A.I. replace certain jobs within performed by the state like teacher evaluations and community college professor’s jobs.

Governor Pritzker has blocked A.I. from certain tasks within the state

The A.I. issue isn’t going away, and the more people utilize it the more government won’t be able to avoid it. Areas where it may be prohibited from certain tasks and usages, it might be used in other areas of the same office.

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One of the things that A.I. shows promise with is efficiency, something that historically government is really bad at. In Illinois we have unfunded debt to a suffocating amount. These debts affect every budget, year after year. A.I. could definitely save the state money when it comes to some specific clerical jobs getting done. But what about generating revenue?

Governor Pritzker will entertain the idea of A.I. generating revenue for the state

Illinois may be looking into using A.I. to help with revenue in the form of some new legislation that some say will open the door for the Urban Transportation Center in Chicago to study whether cameras along DuSable Lake Shore Drive using A.I. could make things safer.

Potential revenue training grounds on Lake Shore Drive

Think red light cameras, but watching everything you are doing in your vehicle through that area of Chicago. Are you on your phone? Ticket! Are you not wearing a seatbelt? Ticket? Improper lane usage, tailgating, run a light, speeding? Yahtzee!

Those cameras could deliver a-lot of revenue for the state

To be fair, we aren’t at this reality yet. But with Chicago and the state of Illinois in financial binds, generating revenue via A.I. will be something that is studied and encouraged. Those avenues of increasing funds flowing to Springfield will be explored before the implantation of saving money within state government via A.I.