Towards Automated Scoping of AI for Social Good Projects
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| author | Emmerson, Jacob Ghani, Rayid Shi, Zheyuan Ryan |
| author_facet | Emmerson, Jacob Ghani, Rayid Shi, Zheyuan Ryan |
| contents | Artificial Intelligence for Social Good (AI4SG) is an emerging effort that aims to address complex societal challenges with the powerful capabilities of AI systems. These challenges range from local issues with transit networks to global wildlife preservation. However, regardless of scale, a critical bottleneck for many AI4SG initiatives is the laborious process of problem scoping -- a complex and resource-intensive task -- due to a scarcity of professionals with both technical and domain expertise. Given the remarkable applications of large language models (LLM), we propose a Problem Scoping Agent (PSA) that uses an LLM to generate comprehensive project proposals grounded in scientific literature and real-world knowledge. We demonstrate that our PSA framework generates proposals comparable to those written by experts through a blind review and AI evaluations. Finally, we document the challenges of real-world problem scoping and note several areas for future work. |
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| spellingShingle | Towards Automated Scoping of AI for Social Good Projects Emmerson, Jacob Ghani, Rayid Shi, Zheyuan Ryan Artificial Intelligence Computers and Society Artificial Intelligence for Social Good (AI4SG) is an emerging effort that aims to address complex societal challenges with the powerful capabilities of AI systems. These challenges range from local issues with transit networks to global wildlife preservation. However, regardless of scale, a critical bottleneck for many AI4SG initiatives is the laborious process of problem scoping -- a complex and resource-intensive task -- due to a scarcity of professionals with both technical and domain expertise. Given the remarkable applications of large language models (LLM), we propose a Problem Scoping Agent (PSA) that uses an LLM to generate comprehensive project proposals grounded in scientific literature and real-world knowledge. We demonstrate that our PSA framework generates proposals comparable to those written by experts through a blind review and AI evaluations. Finally, we document the challenges of real-world problem scoping and note several areas for future work. |
| title | Towards Automated Scoping of AI for Social Good Projects |
| topic | Artificial Intelligence Computers and Society |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20010 |