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# The share of organisations with no responsible AI policies fell to 11% in 2025, from 24% in 2024
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/responsible-ai-policy-impact/
- Published: 2026-10-19T17:07:41.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:04:50.000Z
- Description: 11% of organisations had no responsible AI policies in 2025, down from 24%. 36% said their policies improved business operations, and 25% reported fewer AI incidents, up from 17%.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Ethics, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-ethics

11%

of organisations had not implemented responsible AI policies in 2025, down from 24% in 2024

No responsible AI policies

202511%

202424%

## What the chart shows

In the AI Index and McKinsey survey, the share of organisations that had not implemented responsible AI policies fell from 24% in 2024 to 11% in 2025.

Respondents reported more benefits than a year earlier. 36% said their policies improved business operations, such as efficiency and costs (32% in 2024), and 28% said they improved business outcomes such as revenue (21%). A quarter (25%) reported fewer AI incidents, up from 17%, while 16% reported slower time to market, up from 12%.

## Key numbers

| Measure                          | Value |
| -------------------------------- | ----- |
| No responsible AI policies, 2025 | 11%   |
| No responsible AI policies, 2024 | 24%   |
| Improved operations, 2025        | 36%   |
| Improved business outcomes, 2025 | 28%   |
| Fewer AI incidents, 2025         | 25%   |
| Fewer AI incidents, 2024         | 17%   |

## 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.
- Percentages are of respondents who chose at least one answer; respondents could choose several.
- ‘Increased user adoption’ (29%) was a new option in 2025, so it has no 2024 bar.

**Source:** [McKinsey & Company Survey](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#mckinsey-state-of-ai), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 3.3.8: *Impact of responsible AI policies in organizations, 2024 vs. 2025*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.  
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