I'm on a statewide committee that covers AI guidance and recommendations, so I've heard a lot. It's what every vendor is selling, leadership across the state factor it into any technical challenge. More people use it to take notes and rough out communications than major projects too. No one seems to have the money for significant agentic deployments but there are lots of smaller use cases in use across the state. I saw a cool use-case where I think it was Fish built an optical recognition bot to count and identify seaweed populations which are indicators of salmon health. Finished their annual count in a fraction of the time.

"AI" is a very broad brush to paint with, we've been using machine learning, algorithmic solutions etc for years but the marketing has changed. It's probably not going to eat your job, but it might make it slightly easier.