This book constitutes the proceedings of the XVIIIth International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI*IA 2019, held in Rende, Italy, in November 2019.  The 41 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions.  The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: Knowledge Representation for AI, AI and Computation, Machine Learning for AI, and AI and Humans.