I have to admit that several times over the past few weeks, and sometimes in a bout of sheer terror, I wondered if I may one day lose my job as a journalist in Hong Kong to an artificial intelligence-driven chatbot.

I was tracking the arrival of ChatGPT in the city, and the impact it has already made on students, teachers, lawyers and so many people in other professions.

The Microsoft-backed AI tool took the internet by storm after its launch last November. Garnering 100 million users worldwide in its first two months, it became the fastest-growing consumer application in history.