Among Filipino AI users, 77% said they were producing work they could not have produced a year earlier, compared with 58% globally. At the same time, 65% of Filipino AI users identified critical thinking as the most important human skill as AI assumes more tasks, the highest percentage among the countries surveyed and above the 46% global average. Only 35% of Filipino AI users said their organizations’ leadership was clearly and consistently aligned on AI, although this was higher than the 26% global average. Earlier deployments indicate that the technology can significantly cut the time spent on routine school work. The use of AI agent across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, meanwhile, grew 15-fold from a year earlier and 18-fold among large enterprises, according to Microsoft.