That is both hilarious and depressingly on-brand for how AI is being handled in a lot of orgs right now. Management pushes it because they need to tick the "we're innovating" box, regardless of whether it makes any sense for the actual work being done
Our org seems to be taking some benefits from being sped up by using AI tools for code generation (much of it is CRUD or layout stuff), however at times I'm asked for help by colleagues and the first thing I've done is Googled and found the answer and gotten a "Oh right, you can google also" since they've been trying to figure out the issue with ChatGPT or similar.