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# Responsible AI papers at six major AI conferences rose 19% to 1,521 in 2025
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/responsible-ai-papers-at-ai-conferences/
- Published: 2026-10-19T17:07:33.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:04:45.000Z
- Description: Six leading AI conferences accepted 1,521 responsible AI papers in 2025, up 19% from 1,278 in 2024 and 4.6 times the 329 of 2019.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Ethics, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-ethics

1,521

▲ 19% vs 2024

responsible AI papers accepted at six AI conferences in 2025

20192025

## What the chart shows

AAAI, AIES, FAccT, ICML, ICLR and NeurIPS accepted 1,521 papers on responsible AI in 2025, up 19% from 1,278 in 2024\. The count has risen every year since 2019, when it was 329.

That is 4.6 times as many papers in six years. The six conferences do not cover all responsible AI research, but the AI Index uses them as a consistent basis for tracking it over time.

## Key numbers

| Measure | Value |
| ------- | ----- |
| 2025    | 1,521 |
| 2024    | 1,278 |
| 2023    | 992   |
| 2022    | 696   |
| 2019    | 329   |

## How to read it

- The AI Index identifies responsible AI papers by keywords; its appendix describes the method.
- Six conferences only. Papers by subtopic, conference and country are in the related charts in this hub.

**Source:** [AI Index](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#ai-index), 2026, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 3.4.1: *Number of responsible AI papers accepted at select AI conferences, 2019–25*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.  
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