Singapore AI scaling hit by 60% governance gap

Only 27% fully trust AI decisions.

Singapore organisations are stepping up AI adoption, but gaps in governance, data quality, and trust are slowing efforts to scale the technology effectively.

Alteryx said 60% of Singapore respondents identified centralised data governance as a missing capability in their data stack, above the 53% global average, whilst 49% cited data quality and accuracy as their top data-stack challenge, against 42% globally.

Trust in AI decision-making also remained limited, with only 27% of Singapore leaders saying they fully trust AI for decision-making, although 79% said they trust it in some capacity for decision support. The findings suggest organisations still prefer AI-assisted decisions with human verification, especially in customer-facing and higher-stakes use cases.

Singapore firms are also moving faster on experimentation, with nearly seven in 10 leaders saying they are using AI more in their roles than a year ago, ahead of the 66% global average. Alteryx added that 56% of Singapore organisations are experimenting with agentic AI, compared with 47% globally, but said most have yet to see a meaningful impact.

The survey was conducted by Coleman Parkes from August to September 2025 and covered 1,400 business and IT leaders across nine markets, including 175 respondents in Singapore.

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