Ed Elson

Yeah.

So you mentioned quantum, biotech, life sciences, all these fascinating technologies.

You didn't mention AI.

And AI is, that is, you know, the multi-trillion dollar prize.

But as we are increasingly seeing, it is becoming increasingly unpopular in America.

And here in Illinois, this is one of the, has one of the highest numbers of data centers in the state.

And increasingly what we're seeing is a lot of people have decided we actually don't like data centers.

We actually don't like AI.

They are protesting against it.

As governor, how do you think about AI?

How do you adopt the technology such that you can generate prosperity and productivity while at the same time recognize that a lot of people are not fans of this technology?

They don't even want it here.

We agree on that.

I just want to ask you about housing.

So you recently had a proposed bill called the Build Plan.

And the idea was to bring down housing prices by essentially giving the state the power to override these local zoning policies, if I'm getting that right.

And the bill didn't pass.

And I look at that, to me, that's a great plan to reduce the cost of housing in America.

We've talked about this a lot.

Econ 101, you need to increase the supply if you want to get prices down.