The U.S. federal government will spend close to $1 billion in artificial intelligence by 2023, according to market researcher IDC. This investment has more than tripled since 2018, showing how important AI is becoming as government agencies develop plans to modernize and automate their business processes. According to new research from Accenture--The Coming Federal Productivity Boom--federal agencies are poised to transform this investment into $364 billion of added productivity by 2028. Under more intensive investment forecasts, these productivity gains could reach $532 billion by the same year. At that point, AI could be applied to tasks that consume 30% of the average federal worker's time.