This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 41st German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2018, held in Berlin, Germany, in September 2018.

The 20 full and 14 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The book also contains one keynote talk in full paper length.

The papers were organized in topical sections named: reasoning; multi-agent systems; robotics; learning; planning; neural networks; search; belief revision; context aware systems; and cognitive approach.