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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人工智能造福社会：一项调查

人工智能造福社会 (AI4SG) 是一个研究主题，旨在使用和推进人工智能来解决社会问题并改善世界福祉。AI4SG 在过去十年中获得了研究界的广泛关注，并有多项成功应用。基于迄今为止最全面的 AI4SG 文献集和 1000 多篇贡献的论文，我们通过以下方式对主题下的工作进行了详细的说明和分析。(1) 我们从应用领域和使用的人工智能技术方面定量分析了 AI4SG 文献的分布和趋势。(2) 我们提出了三种概念方法来系统地对现有文献进行分组，并在一个统一的框架中分析八个 AI4SG 应用领域。(3) 我们提炼出五个研究课题，代表了 AI4SG 各个应用领域的共同挑战。(4) 我们讨论了五个问题，我们希望能够阐明 AI4SG 研究的未来发展。