Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a list of integers and an integer k. You need to find the kth smallest element in the input list and return that.

[205, 55, 245, 283, 196, 16, 215, 287, 281, 249, 186, 194, 141, 254, 23, 10, 268, 26, 62, 75], k=2
16