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# Reported AI incidents rose 29% to 362 in 2025, a record for the AI Incident Database
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/reported-ai-incidents-per-year/
- Published: 2026-10-19T17:07:59.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:04:42.000Z
- Description: The AI Incident Database recorded 362 AI incidents in 2025, up 29% from 281 in 2024 and more than three times the 104 of 2022.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Ethics, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-ethics

362

▲ 29% vs 2024

AI incidents reported to the AI Incident Database in 2025

20122025

## What the chart shows

The AI Incident Database (AIID) recorded 362 incidents in 2025 in which AI systems caused or nearly caused harm, up 29% from 281 in 2024\. It is the highest yearly count in the series, which starts with 8 incidents in 2012.

The count stayed below 100 a year until 2022, when it reached 104\. It has risen every year since: 168 in 2023, 281 in 2024 and 362 in 2025.

## Key numbers

| Measure | Value |
| ------- | ----- |
| 2025    | 362   |
| 2024    | 281   |
| 2023    | 168   |
| 2022    | 104   |
| 2012    | 8     |

## How to read it

- AIID is an open repository of documented cases where AI systems caused or nearly caused harm. Human editors review each submission; the AI Index notes that coverage leans towards English-language media and high-visibility incidents.
- Counts are revised as incidents are added, including for past years, so totals may differ from those now on the AIID website.
- The chart counts reported incidents, so it reflects how much is reported as well as how much happens.

**Source:** [AI Incident Database (AIID)](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#ai-incident-database), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 3.2.1: *Number of reported AI incidents, 2012–25*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.  
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