The AI Incident Database recorded 362 documented AI incidents in 2025, up from 233 in 2024, a rise of 55 percent reported in the 2026 AI Index from the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Annual totals sat below 100 before 2022, placing the 2025 count at more than triple that earlier baseline.

A second tracker points the same direction. The OECD AI Incidents and Hazards Monitor logged 435 reports in January 2026, against a six-month moving average of 326.

Organizational readiness moved the opposite way over the same period. The share of organizations rating their own AI incident response as excellent fell from 28 percent in 2024 to 18 percent in 2025, and the share rating it good fell from 39 percent to 24 percent. The share of organizations reporting three to five incidents rose from 30 percent to 50 percent.

The Index also tracked disclosure practices across model developers. The Foundation Model Transparency Index average dropped from 58 to 40 out of 100, and 80 of the 95 notable models released in 2025 shipped with no published training code.

The report's Responsible AI chapter covers safety, fairness, transparency, and governance, and its authors point to persistent measurement gaps across all four dimensions. Incident counts in both trackers draw on public reporting, so the totals reflect cases that reached news coverage or formal complaint channels.

Source: Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence - https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report/responsible-ai