Utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) for sustainable development in smart cities

Digital transformation is the process of continuous development of digital technologies within information institutions and research centers that have a lasting impact on the economy and society. Thus, digitization is a major driver of permanent change, and this extends to the field of sustainable development. In the wake of digital transformation within information institutions, expectations have changed, creating pressures at the societal level to develop the design of smart environments and balance everything that means sustainable development.
From this standpoint, the solution lies in integrating sustainable artificial intelligence technologies from information institutions and research centers with sustainable development, as artificial intelligence can be an effective means of achieving realistic and low-cost solutions in sustainable development in smart cities.
In order to activate the current status of AI in sustainable development, and to ensure the dimensions of sustainable development that are taken into account when integrating AI, this research aims, through following a content analysis approach that includes analyzing the literature and studies published in this field and extracting what the study provides from a vision based on theoretical review, to providing an overview of artificial intelligence and sustainable development, explaining the artificial intelligence applications in information institutions’ research and its effects on achieving sustainable development in smart cities, pointing out the artificial intelligence technologies used in sustainable development in modern cities and the information institutions support for this use, and what are the new challenges facing sustainable development in smart cities.