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Artificial Intelligence for Social Good: A Survey

arXiv 2001.01818 ↗First posted 7 Jan 2020cs.CY cs.AIcited by 29

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Abstract (arXiv)

Artificial intelligence for social good (AI4SG) is a research theme that aims to use and advance artificial intelligence to address societal issues and improve the well-being of the world. AI4SG has received lots of attention from the research community in the past decade with several successful applications. Building on the most comprehensive collection of the AI4SG literature to date with over 1000 contributed papers, we provide a detailed account and analysis of the work under the theme in the following ways. (1) We quantitatively analyze the distribution and trend of the AI4SG literature in terms of application domains and AI techniques used. (2) We propose three conceptual methods to systematically group the existing literature and analyze the eight AI4SG application domains in a unified framework. (3) We distill five research topics that represent the common challenges in AI4SG across various application domains. (4) We discuss five issues that, we hope, can shed light on the future development of the AI4SG research.

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  2. 2023`It is currently hodgepodge'': Examining AI/ML Practitioners' Challenges during Co-production of Responsible AI Valuescited by 18
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  5. 2023On the Actionability of Outcome Predictioncited by 9
  6. 2024Towards Foundation-model-based Multiagent System to Accelerate AI for Social Impactcited by 9
  7. 2023Beyond Good Intentions: Reporting the Research Landscape of NLP for Social Goodcited by 6
  8. 2023Proactive and Reactive Engagement of Artificial Intelligence Methods for Education: A Reviewcited by 5
  9. 2023Is a Seat at the Table Enough? Engaging Teachers and Students in Dataset Specification for ML in Educationcited by 5
  10. 2022Can Language Representation Models Think in Bets?cited by 3
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  4. 2024Medical Imaging Complexity and its Effects on GAN Performancecited by 1
  5. 2025Towards Automated Scoping of AI for Social Good Projectscited by 1
  6. 2025HatePRISM: Policies, Platforms, and Research Integration. Advancing NLP for Hate Speech Proactive Mitigationcited by 1
  7. 2025Optimizing Health Coverage in Ethiopia: A Learning-augmented Approach and Persistent Proportionality Under an Online Budgetcited by 1
  8. 2025VORTEX: Aligning Task Utility and Human Preferences through LLM-Guided Reward Shapingcited by 1
  9. 2025Good Intentions Beyond ACL: Who Does NLP for Social Good, and Where?cited by 1
  10. 2021Classification, Slippage, Failure and Discoverycited by 0
  11. 2024A resource-constrained stochastic scheduling algorithm for homeless street outreach and gleaning edible foodcited by 0
  12. 2024Demarked: A Strategy for Enhanced Abusive Speech Moderation through Counterspeech, Detoxification, and Message Managementcited by 0
  13. 2024Predicting Internet Connectivity in Schools: A Feasibility Study Leveraging Multi-modal Data and Location Encoders in Low-Resource Settingscited by 0
  14. 2025RAGAT-Mind: A Multi-Granular Modeling Approach for Rumor Detection Based on MindSporecited by 0
  15. 2025RescueLens: LLM-Powered Triage and Action on Volunteer Feedback for Food Rescuecited by 0
  16. 2025Large Language Models for Sentiment Analysis to Detect Social Challenges: A Use Case with South African Languagescited by 0
  17. 2026Whose Good, Whose Place? The Moral Geography of Agentic AI for Social Goodcited by 0