I don't think AI is an exception. In organizations where there were top-down mandates for Agile, or OOP, or Test-Driven Development, or you-name-it, those who didn't take up the mandate with zeal were likely to find themselves out of favor.
It's not necessarily top down. I genuinely don't know a single person in my organization who doesn't use LLMs one way or another. Obviously with different degrees of applications, but literally everyone does. And we haven't had a real "EVERYONE MUST USE AI!", just people suggesting and asking for specific model usages, access to apps like Cursor and so on.
(I know it because I'm in charge of maintaining all processes around LLM keys, their usages, Cursor stuff and etc.)
No, right now the only thing higher ups ask from me is general percentage usages for different types of model/software usages (Anthropic/OpenAI/Cursor and etc.), so we can reassess subscriptions to cut costs wherever it's needed. But to be fair, they have access to the same dashboards as I do, so if they want to, they can look for it.
