JB Pritzker thinks AI could help us live to 100 — or threaten us like nukes
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker discusses the intersection of AI, privacy, and government policy in a wide-ranging interview. He emphasizes that complex modern challenges require collective government action rather than fragmented state-by-state solutions.
Why it matters
It highlights how state-level political leaders are increasingly grappling with the existential and regulatory implications of emerging technologies.
Today, I’m talking with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who has a lot of thoughts about AI, tech, and privacy. If you’ve been listening to the show, you know that one of my running theories is that those issues are driving a big and maybe kind of unexpected political realignment — and with the midterms coming up next month, and early voting already underway in a lot of places, the stakes are pretty high right now. So I asked Gov. Pritzker about all that, and he was surprisingly willing to dive right into the absolute existential weeds of what government is even for. You’ll hear him say — and it’s hard to disagree — that some problems are just collective action problems that require the government to do a lot of work. We can’t solve all these problems one at a time, or even one state at a time.
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