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# Risk and compliance teams owned AI governance at 19% of organisations in 2025, up from 13% in 2024
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-governance-ownership-by-function/
- Published: 2026-10-19T17:07:45.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:04:34.000Z
- Description: Risk and compliance functions had primary responsibility for AI governance at 19% of organisations in 2025, up from 13%. Information security remained the most common owner at 21%.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Ethics, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-ethics

19%

of organisations gave risk and compliance primary responsibility for AI governance in 2025, up from 13%; information security remained most common at 21%

Risk and compliance as owner

202519%

202413%

## What the chart shows

Information security was the function most often given primary responsibility for AI governance in 2025, at 21% of organisations in the AI Index and McKinsey survey, the same as in 2024\. Risk and compliance rose the most, from 13% to 19%, and dedicated AI governance roles rose from 14% to 17%.

Data and analytics functions fell from 17% to 13%. The share of organisations where no function is primarily responsible fell from 9% to 5%.

## Key numbers

| Measure                            | Value |
| ---------------------------------- | ----- |
| Information security, 2025         | 21%   |
| Risk and compliance, 2025          | 19%   |
| Risk and compliance, 2024          | 13%   |
| AI-specific governance roles, 2025 | 17%   |
| Data and analytics, 2025           | 13%   |
| No function responsible, 2025      | 5%    |

## How to read it

- Survey of business leaders by the AI Index and McKinsey & Company in 2024 and 2025, across several regions and industries; it has no respondents from China.
- ‘Unknown’ responses are not shown, so shares do not add up to 100%.

**Source:** [McKinsey & Company Survey](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#mckinsey-state-of-ai), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 3.3.6: *Business functions assigned primary responsibility for AI governance, 2024 vs. 2025*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.  
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