This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition, IWAIPR 2023, held in Varadero, Cuba, in October 2023.  The 68 papers presented in the proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The IWAIPR conference aims to provide a leading international forum to promote and disseminate ongoing research into mathematical methods of computing techniques for Artifical Intelligence and Pattern Recognition.