It's 4ir shit (4th industrial revolution). AI has been sold as the next industrial revolution in production and governments are sincerely bought into the idea that it needs to be implemented into all aspects of the economy in order to keep up with opponents doing the same.

They see populations reluctant to embrace it as the reason for lacking the productivity games it's supposed to provide when in reality the technology just does not provide those productivity gains outside of specific niche things like healthcare where AI can definitely play an excellent role in patient diagnosis and pharmacy.

They don't realise they've been lied to yet. Governments will be last to realise.