{"slug": "72-of-hong-kong-professionals-use-ai-weekly-double-the-global-average-survey", "title": "72% of Hong Kong professionals use AI weekly, double the global average: survey", "summary": "A Hong Kong University of Science and Technology survey of 3,722 working professionals found that 72.7% use AI tools weekly, more than double the 31% global average from a 2025 KPMG study. Generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini are used by 81.7% of respondents, but only about a quarter use advanced applications such as data analytics or agentic AI. Junior employees expressed greater job insecurity, with 40% feeling less secure, while 70% of senior managers said AI increased their motivation to learn new skills.", "body_md": "# 72% of Hong Kong professionals use AI weekly, double the global average: survey\n\nBut HKUST study also finds that junior employees harbour deeper anxiety over job security amid AI’s growing adoption\n\nMore than 70 per cent of Hong Kong working professionals use artificial intelligence (AI) tools on a weekly basis, more than double the global average, but junior staff also harbour deeper anxiety over job security amid its growing adoption, a survey has found.\n\nThe study conducted by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) surveyed 3,722 working professionals in the city between March and April this year, with more than 60 per cent of them aged between 30 and 49.\n\nSome 72.7 per cent of respondents said they used AI tools at work on a daily or weekly basis, compared with a global average of 31 per cent cited in a 2025 KPMG study.\n\nGenerative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini were the most widely adopted, used by 81.7 per cent of respondents, mainly for drafting documents, summarising information and supporting creative work.\n\nHowever, only about a quarter of respondents regularly used more advanced AI applications, such as data analytics, image or video generation tools, or agentic AI systems capable of executing multi-step tasks with little human oversight.\n\nThe HKUST survey also found that perceptions and expectations varied among staff at different levels.\n\nWhile about 70 per cent of senior managers said AI had increased their motivation to learn new skills, more than half of junior-level employees said they worried AI could erode the value of their existing skills. About 40 per cent of juniors even said it had left them feeling less secure in their jobs.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/72-of-hong-kong-professionals-use-ai-weekly-double-the-global-average-survey", "canonical_source": "https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3363518/72-hong-kong-professionals-use-ai-weekly-double-global-average-survey?utm_source=rss_feed", "published_at": "2026-08-10 08:09:46+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-10 08:15:30.338116+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "generative-ai", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Hong Kong University of Science and Technology", "KPMG", "ChatGPT", "Copilot", "Gemini"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/72-of-hong-kong-professionals-use-ai-weekly-double-the-global-average-survey", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/72-of-hong-kong-professionals-use-ai-weekly-double-the-global-average-survey.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/72-of-hong-kong-professionals-use-ai-weekly-double-the-global-average-survey.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/72-of-hong-kong-professionals-use-ai-weekly-double-the-global-average-survey.jsonld"}}