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# Inaccuracy was the AI risk organisations cited most in 2025: 74% saw it as relevant and 71% mitigated it
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-risks-relevant-vs-mitigated/
- Published: 2026-10-19T17:07:47.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:04:35.000Z
- Description: 74% of organisations saw inaccuracy as a relevant AI risk in 2025, up from 60% in 2024 and just ahead of cybersecurity at 72%. 71% said they were actively mitigating it.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Ethics, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-ethics

74%

of organisations considered inaccuracy a relevant AI risk in 2025, up from 60% in 2024; 71% were actively mitigating it

Inaccuracy, 2025

Considered relevant74%

Actively mitigated70.6%

## What the chart shows

Inaccuracy was the AI risk most often considered relevant in 2025, by 74% of organisations in the AI Index and McKinsey survey, up from 60% in 2024\. Cybersecurity followed at 72%, up from 66%, then regulatory compliance at 63%.

Organisations mitigate fewer risks than they recognise. 71% were actively mitigating inaccuracy and 61% cybersecurity, but for equity and fairness the shares were 30% relevant and 23% mitigated, and for explainability 36% and 29%. Nine of the 13 risks asked about in both years were cited as relevant less often than in 2024.

## Key numbers

| Measure                              | Value |
| ------------------------------------ | ----- |
| Inaccuracy, relevant, 2025           | 74.0% |
| Inaccuracy, relevant, 2024           | 60%   |
| Inaccuracy, mitigated, 2025          | 70.6% |
| Cybersecurity, relevant, 2025        | 71.8% |
| Equity and fairness, relevant, 2025  | 29.8% |
| Equity and fairness, mitigated, 2025 | 22.6% |

## 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.
- The chart shows 2025\. The 2024 shares are in the data file; ‘resource misuse’ and ‘autonomous or unintended system actions’ were new options in 2025.
- Respondents could name several risks.

**Source:** [McKinsey & Company Survey](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#mckinsey-state-of-ai), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 3.3.5: *AI risks: considered relevant vs. actively mitigated, 2024 vs. 2025*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.  
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