Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to provide innovative solutions to various societal issues and real-world social challenges. AI is useful in combating some of the seemingly unsolvable social crises facing the world today. Be it disaster awareness and management or demand forecasting, or healthcare informatics or disease outbreaks like COVID-19, the AI plays a pivotal role  everywhere.  AI has the potential to address some of the societal issues that indirectly pose challenges like cybercrime, agriculture, education, economy, and health. The book covers several applications of AI as solutions to different societal issues, which include economic empowerment, smart education system, COVID-19 detection & management,  emotion detection, fraudulent transactions, applications in agriculture and health informatics, etc. The book will be helpful for the academicians and researchers working with various areas of societal issues, data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.