AI and GIS are broad topics and I don't know of any white papers on that subject. Did you have something specific in mind? If you have a license for ArcMAP 10.0 or 10.1, you could write AI code in Python and use the ArcGIS API (ArcPy): ArcPy Help. You can use geostatistical analyst and spatial analyst modules to perform statistical analysis on spatial data as well as call ArcGIS geoprocessing tools.