Artificial Intelligence Research: 5th Southern African Conference, Sacair 2024, Bloemfontein, South

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Southern African Conference on Artificial Intelligence Research, SACAIR 2024, held in Bloemfontein, South Africa, during December 2-6, 2024.

The 29 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: algorithmic and Data Driven AI; socio-technical and human-centred AI (Information Systems); responsible and Ethical AI (Philosophy, Law and Humanities); symbolic AI and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.