AI Ethics & Safety: chart data from AI Adoption (https://aiadoption.org/ai-ethics-statistics/)

Data from the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI) and the partners named below. Licence: CC BY-ND 4.0, as for the AI Index.
Each CSV is the data behind one chart. Cite the chart page and its original source.

reported-ai-incidents-per-year.csv  Reported AI incidents rose 29% to 362 in 2025, a record for the AI Incident Database
    Source: AI Incident Database (AIID), 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/reported-ai-incidents-per-year/
monthly-ai-incidents-in-the-news.csv  AI incidents found in the news hit 435 in January 2026, the highest month and 2.3 times January 2025
    Source: OECD AIM, 2026
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/monthly-ai-incidents-in-the-news/
organisations-ai-incident-counts.csv  Half of organisations hit by AI incidents had three to five of them in 2025, up from 30% in 2024
    Source: McKinsey & Company Survey, 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/organisations-ai-incident-counts/
organisations-ai-incident-response-ratings.csv  Organisations rating their AI incident response 'excellent' fell to 18% in 2025, from 28% in 2024
    Source: McKinsey & Company Survey, 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/organisations-ai-incident-response-ratings/
llm-hallucination-rates-document-summaries.csv  Finix S1 32B hallucinated in 1.8% of document summaries, the lowest of 15 models on Vectara's HHEM test
    Source: HHEM Leaderboard, 2026
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/llm-hallucination-rates-document-summaries/
llm-hallucination-rates-aa-omniscience.csv  Grok 4.20 Beta had the lowest hallucination rate of 26 models on AA-Omniscience, 22%; gpt-oss-20B had 94%
    Source: Artificial Analysis, 2026
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/llm-hallucination-rates-aa-omniscience/
responsible-ai-maturity-by-region.csv  Responsible AI maturity rose in every region in 2025; Latin America gained most, from 1.8 to 2.2 of 4
    Source: McKinsey & Company Survey, 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/responsible-ai-maturity-by-region/
ai-risks-relevant-vs-mitigated.csv  Inaccuracy was the AI risk organisations cited most in 2025: 74% saw it as relevant and 71% mitigated it
    Source: McKinsey & Company Survey, 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-risks-relevant-vs-mitigated/
ai-governance-ownership-by-function.csv  Risk and compliance teams owned AI governance at 19% of organisations in 2025, up from 13% in 2024
    Source: McKinsey & Company Survey, 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-governance-ownership-by-function/
responsible-ai-investment-by-company-revenue.csv  41% of $30B+ companies expect to spend under $10M on responsible AI, against 92% of companies under $1B
    Source: McKinsey & Company Survey, 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/responsible-ai-investment-by-company-revenue/
responsible-ai-policy-impact.csv  The share of organisations with no responsible AI policies fell to 11% in 2025, from 24% in 2024
    Source: McKinsey & Company Survey, 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/responsible-ai-policy-impact/
responsible-ai-implementation-obstacles.csv  59% of organisations named knowledge and training gaps a main obstacle to responsible AI in 2025, up from 51%
    Source: McKinsey & Company Survey, 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/responsible-ai-implementation-obstacles/
regulations-influencing-responsible-ai.csv  The EU's GDPR shaped responsible AI decisions at 60% of organisations in 2025, down from 65% in 2024
    Source: McKinsey & Company Survey, 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/regulations-influencing-responsible-ai/
organisational-support-responsible-ai-governance-by-country.csv  85% of employees in India say their organisation supports responsible AI governance; in Portugal, 40.5%
    Source: University of Melbourne and KPMG International, 2025
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/organisational-support-responsible-ai-governance-by-country/
ai-bias-discrimination-scores-by-country.csv  The US scores highest on GIRAI's AI bias and discrimination measure at 90.8; 59 of 138 countries score zero
    Source: The Global Index on Responsible AI, 2024
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-bias-discrimination-scores-by-country/
ai-gender-equality-scores-by-country.csv  Canada scores 96.0 on GIRAI's AI gender equality measure, the highest of 138 countries; 59 score zero
    Source: The Global Index on Responsible AI, 2024
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-gender-equality-scores-by-country/
ai-cultural-linguistic-diversity-scores-by-country.csv  Singapore leads GIRAI's cultural and linguistic diversity measure at 89.8; 60 of 138 countries score zero
    Source: The Global Index on Responsible AI, 2024
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-cultural-linguistic-diversity-scores-by-country/
cultural-linguistic-diversity-action-by-region.csv  In Africa, 39% of countries show non-state work on AI linguistic diversity; 2% have government frameworks
    Source: The Global Index on Responsible AI, 2024
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/cultural-linguistic-diversity-action-by-region/
ai-data-protection-privacy-scores-by-country.csv  The Netherlands scores 97.3 of 100 on AI data protection and privacy; 47 of 138 countries score zero
    Source: The Global Index on Responsible AI, 2024
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-data-protection-privacy-scores-by-country/
responsible-ai-papers-at-ai-conferences.csv  Responsible AI papers at six major AI conferences rose 19% to 1,521 in 2025
    Source: AI Index, 2026
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/responsible-ai-papers-at-ai-conferences/
responsible-ai-papers-by-subtopic.csv  Security and safety was the largest responsible AI research topic in 2025, with 641 papers, up 23%
    Source: AI Index, 2026
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/responsible-ai-papers-by-subtopic/
responsible-ai-share-of-conference-papers.csv  Responsible AI fell to 8.0% of AAAI papers in 2025 from 13.4%, in line with NeurIPS, ICML and ICLR
    Source: AI Index, 2026
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/responsible-ai-share-of-conference-papers/
responsible-ai-papers-by-country.csv  China had 812 responsible AI papers at six major AI conferences in 2025, about twice the US's 394
    Source: AI Index, 2026
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/responsible-ai-papers-by-country/
responsible-ai-papers-by-country-cumulative.csv  US authors had 3,865 responsible AI papers at six AI conferences in 2019–2025, nearly twice China's 2,015
    Source: AI Index, 2026
    Chart: https://aiadoption.org/data/responsible-ai-papers-by-country-cumulative/
