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# Responsible AI fell to 8.0% of AAAI papers in 2025 from 13.4%, in line with NeurIPS, ICML and ICLR
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/responsible-ai-share-of-conference-papers/
- Published: 2026-10-19T17:07:29.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:04:51.000Z
- Description: Responsible AI made up 7.6% to 8.0% of accepted papers at AAAI, NeurIPS, ICML and ICLR in 2025. At the specialist FAccT and AIES conferences it was 67.4% and 54.7%.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Ethics, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-ethics

8.0%

▼ 5.4 pts vs 2024

share of AAAI's accepted papers on responsible AI in 2025

20192025

## What the chart shows

At the four general AI conferences tracked, responsible AI papers made up about 8% of accepted work in 2025: 8.0% at AAAI and NeurIPS, and 7.6% at ICML and ICLR. AAAI’s share fell from 13.4% in 2024, its highest in the series.

The specialist conferences are different: responsible AI was 67.4% of accepted papers at FAccT and 54.7% at AIES in 2025\. AIES’s share has risen from 18.6% in 2019; FAccT’s has stayed between 61% and 73% throughout.

## Key numbers

| Measure       | Value  |
| ------------- | ------ |
| AAAI, 2025    | 8.00%  |
| AAAI, 2024    | 13.36% |
| NeurIPS, 2025 | 7.98%  |
| ICML, 2025    | 7.65%  |
| ICLR, 2025    | 7.62%  |
| FAccT, 2025   | 67.43% |

## How to read it

- FAccT (fairness, accountability and transparency) and AIES (AI, ethics and society) are specialist conferences; AAAI, ICML, ICLR and NeurIPS are general AI conferences.
- The report text gives ICML’s 2025 share as 7.7%; the data (7.645%) rounds to 7.6%, which we use.

**Source:** [AI Index](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#ai-index), 2026, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 3.4.3: *Responsible AI papers accepted (% of total) at select AI conferences by conference, 2019–25*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.  
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