Preface

This collection contains a set of articles and position papers Our main goal in organizing the AAAI Spring Symposium on topics in artificial intelligence for development at Stanford on Artificial Intelligence for Development has (AID). Each paper explores one or more opportunities for been to bring together a critical mass of researchers who harnessing AI to promote the socioeconomic development share an interest in applying AI research to development and enhance the quality of life of disadvantaged populations, challenges. We hope that the meeting will catalyze new research including people living within developing countries. Insightful applications of machine learning, reasoning, We note that the use of machine intelligence has been pursued planning, and perception have the potential to bring great before in projects within the information and communication value to disadvantaged populations in a wide array of areas, technologies for development (ICT-D) community. We hope that can extend medical care to remote regions through this new collection of papers, and the presentations, panels, automated diagnosis and effective triaging of limited and discussions at the AID symposium, will help to further medical expertise and transportation resources.