### Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability  
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be defined as software technology that encompasses one or more capabilities referring to perception, prediction, classification, decision making, diagnosis, and logical reasoning, among others [39].  
This technology is fully compatible in complying with the SDGs, as stated annually in the summits organized by the International Telecommunication Union [41] in partnership with several entities and more than 35 UN agencies.  
In successive meetings held periodically, the need for AI to accelerate compliance with the UN's SDGs is emphasized through the presentation of different projects aimed at this end [42].  
Table 5 shows some of these activities. We can see that they refer to a wide variety of multidisciplinary sectors in the social, economic, and environmental fields.  
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\begin{tabular}{c c c} \hline \hline
**Partners** & **AI Activities** & **Related SDGs** \\ \hline Food and Agriculture & Fishing gear identification & 1–3 \\ Organization of the United & Animal disease identification from images & 8,9 \\ Nations (FAO) & Aquaculture mapping & 10–12 \\  & Detecting fall armyworm infestations & \\  & From industrial robots to deep learning & \\ International Labor & robots: the impact on jobs and employment & 1–5 \\ Organization (ILO) & The economics of artificial intelligence: & 8–10 \\  & Implications for the future of work & 16,17 \\  & Skills strategies for future labor markets & \\  & Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships & \\  & (MASS) & 8,9, \\ International Maritime & E-navigation & 11,13,14, \\ Organization (IMO) & Marine Environmental Protection and AI & 16,17 \\  & AI for Sustainable Maritime Transport & \\  & (AI-SMART) & \\  & Humanitarian Data Science and Ethics & \\  & Group & \\ International Organization for & IOM–Global Migration Data Analysis & 7,10 \\ Migration (IOM) & Centre (GMDAC) & 17 \\  & Applying techniques for internal quality & \\  & control within the Displacement Tracking & \\  & Matrix (DTM) Global Team & 3,4 \\ United Nations Program on & Health Innovation Exchange \& TimBre & 9 \\ HIV/AIDS & Project: AIR-TB & 17 \\ United Nations Environment & Water-Related Ecosystems—SDG 6.6.1 & \\ Program (UNEP) & UNEP Q \& A Chatbot & 6 \\  & Funding Analysis and Prediction platform & 17 \\  & UNEP Robotic Process Automation & \\  & Creating Global Public Goods & \\  & Developing Knowledge and Policies & \\  & Piloting Distruptive Technologies in World & \\  & Bank Operations & 1–3 \\  & Education-Use AI for Learning through & 9–11 \\  & Games & 13,16 \\  & Due Diligence—Predicting accounting red & \\  & flags from external financial reports & \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular} Note. Adapted from [41].  
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Table 5: UN activities on artificial intelligence (AI) and relationship with the SDGs.  
On the other hand, a November 2018 McKinsey Global Institute study identified as many as 135 initiatives out of a possible 156 that fully or partially linked AI to one or more of the SDGs [38].  
Figure 2 illustrates that most of these initiatives were related to Goals 3, \"Good health and well-being\", and 16, \"Peace, justice, and strong institutions\".