AI is genuinely useful for a specific class of work. Language models can read and summarise documents, pull structured data from free text, classify incoming requests and draft replies. Prediction models can find patterns in historical data, such as which assets will need attention first. Used well, they take over the repetitive part of work that until recently only a person could do.
It is not a strategy, and it is not the answer to every problem. Much of what is sold as AI is better solved with a clear procedure, a fixed rule or ordinary automation, which is cheaper, more predictable and easier to maintain. We start from the process and only apply AI where it adds something the alternatives cannot.