I've largely avoided using the term "AI" to refer to the current LLM and generative technology because it's loaded with too much ambiguity and glosses over the problems with those technologies in the context of conversations around it.
"applied statistics"
Same, but I have used the term “generative AI” to describe generative models. Never the naked “AI” though (except in conversations with friends where the difference is pedantic because they’re not subject matter experts).