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# Half of organisations hit by AI incidents had three to five of them in 2025, up from 30% in 2024
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/organisations-ai-incident-counts/
- Published: 2026-10-19T17:07:51.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:04:39.000Z
- Description: Among organisations reporting AI incidents, 50% had three to five in 2025, up from 30% in 2024. The share with just one or two fell from 42% to 29%.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Ethics, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-ethics

50%

of organisations that had AI incidents reported three to five of them in 2025, up from 30% in 2024

Organisations with 3–5 incidents

202550%

202430%

## What the chart shows

Among organisations in the AI Index and McKinsey survey that experienced AI incidents, half (50%) reported three to five in 2025, up from 30% in 2024\. The share reporting one or two fell from 42% to 29%.

The share with six to nine incidents was unchanged at 13%, and 8% reported ten or more, down from 11%. Taken together, 71% of these organisations had three or more incidents in 2025, against 54% in 2024.

## Key numbers

| Measure             | Value |
| ------------------- | ----- |
| 3–5 incidents, 2025 | 50%   |
| 3–5 incidents, 2024 | 30%   |
| 1–2 incidents, 2025 | 29%   |
| 1–2 incidents, 2024 | 42%   |
| 10 or more, 2025    | 8%    |
| 10 or more, 2024    | 11%   |

## 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.
- Shares are of organisations that experienced at least one AI incident; the AI Index reports that 8% of surveyed organisations did in each year.
- ‘Unknown’ was 5% in 2024 and 0% in 2025.

**Source:** [McKinsey & Company Survey](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#mckinsey-state-of-ai), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 3.3.3: *Number of AI incidents reported by organizations*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.  
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