The Artificial Intelligence for Serious Games Workshop will be held at the Eighth Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE’12). This workshop will explore the unique problems, methods, and solutions in serious game AI, both in current research and existing serious games, and to use this exploration to identify and define promising research pathways and needs. Dr. James Niehaus, Mr. Alex Godwin, and Mr. Sean Guarino of Charles River Analytics are part of the organizing committee, having a long standing commitment to serious games and AI research.