The Role of AI in Accelerating UN Efforts to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) are an important global framework for achieving sustainable and equal development; Artificial intelligence (AI), as transformative technology, can have the potential to achieve these goals. This research explores the potential of AI in advancing the SDGs and highlights the critical role of AI technologies in enhancing organizational processes and decision-making. Also, the study addresses the challenges organizations in aligning their activities for the SDGs and achieving progress at the required steps. The study aims to analyze the role of AI in accelerating the achievement of the SDGs, with the secondary objective focusing on the current state of using AI, organizational factors affecting AI efficiency, and the identification of AI-driven innovations and technologies. The research employs qualitative secondary data analytical techniques. Review adhering to organization documents as the foundation of reports, complemented by analysis to identify trends and patterns in AI and SDG-related research. The tools identify organizational activities with specific SDGs, while analytical insights are synthesized to address the research questions. The methodology ensures the investigation of the intersection of AI and SDGs provides valuable understandings about the current landscape of AI in relation to the SDGs. It identifies critical organizational considerations that influence the effectiveness of AI, the speed and significance of AI-enabled innovations, and the best AI technologies and applications. The findings underline the opportunities AI has for solving the SDGs issues, however, there are challenges and limitations, so, the research emphasizes the role of organizational structure, innovation and technology management, alongside the use of ethical AI in achieving Al’s impacts to progress the SDGs.