During the recent 2025 National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) Annual Conference in Denver, he talked about how quickly the tech is changing the workforce — and not necessarily in a bad way that will lead to lost paychecks.
According to his outlook — and Orgeron is in his second stretch of overseeing technology for the Mississippi state government — AI “is democratizing tech in a generational way we’ve never seen,” he said during a Government Technology interview at the conference.
AI is putting new tools into the hands of workers at all levels, he said.
He rejected the idea that the rise of AI will lead to automation that requires no human input. He favored the thesis that artificial intelligence will instead result in “augmentation,” with AI becoming more like a colleague of people than a zero-sum competitor.
That’s not to say the impact from AI will be slight, of course.
“Organizations will be impacted,” Orgeron said, adding that “reorganization of teams” is all but a certainty as “AI becomes that teammate and augmenter.”
As Orgeron continues to lead Mississippi’s tech efforts, the state and Legislature have come together to encourage AI innovation via an executive order and lawmaker action.
Not only that, but state university and college students are taking part on what Orgeron called a “sandbox” to produce “proofs of value and proofs of concept” around AI — work that promises to not only educate those students, but lead to ideas about bringing more AI to state government.
