Responsible AI in practice: 2025 global insights from the AI Company Data Initiative

Unesco Report: “Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly being embedded across companies’ products, services and internal operations, yet governance and disclosure are not evolving at the same speed. This report looks at corporate practice in the context of the emerging responsible AI regulatory landscape and analyses publicly available data collected by the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s AI Company Data Initiative, the largest global dataset of corporate responsible AI disclosures. As privately developed or deployed AI systems shape more of daily life, transparency must move beyond technical descriptions to show how accountability works— including who makes decisions, how ethical issues are escalated, and what remediation paths exist when things go wrong. Clear responsibility for harms or breaches should be identifiable in practice, not just in principle. Just as we expect openness and accountability from government, it is important that the private sector meets comparable transparency standards for AI that affects the public…(More)”.