Episode
JB Pritzker thinks AI could help us live to 100 — or threaten us like nukes
Decoder with Nilay Patel · Oct 19, 2026 · 59 min
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, has a lot of thoughts about AI, tech, and privacy. 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. And as he notes, some problems are just collective action problems that require a government. We…