JB Pritzker thinks AI could help us live to 100 — or threaten us like nukes

Today, I’m talking with Illinois Governor 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.

It’s a pretty deep conversation, and we really got into it on a lot of issues.

And of course, I had to ask him: Are the Bears gonna stay in Illinois? Before we get going, do me a favor and subscribe to Decoder on YouTube , where we put out new episodes every Monday and Thursday.

Okay: Illinois Gov.

JB Pritzker.

Here we go.

Governor JB Pritzker, you’re the governor of Illinois.

Welcome to Decoder .

Thanks, Nilay.