sustainability Article Ordering Artificial Intelligence Based Recommendations to Tackle the SDGs with a Decision-Making Model Based on Surveys Sergio Alonso 1, * , Rosana Montes 1 , Daniel Molina 2 , Iván Palomares 1,3 , Eugenio Martínez-Cámara 2 , Manuel Chiachio 4 , Juan Chiachio 4 , Francisco J. Melero 1 , Pablo García-Moral 5 , Bárbara Fernández 6 , Cristina Moral 6 , Rosario Marchena 6 , Javier Pérez de Vargas 7 and Francisco Herrera 2,7   Citation: Alonso, S.; Montes, R.; Molina, D.; Palomares, I.; Martínez-Cámara, E.; Chiachio, M.; Chiachio, J.; Melero, F.J.; García- Moral, P.; Fernández, B.; et al. Ordering Artificial Intelligence Based Recommendations to Tackle the SDGs with a Decision-Making Model Based on Surveys. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6038. https://doi.org/10.3390/ su13116038 Academic Editors: Álvaro Herrero, Carlos Cambra, Carlos Alonso de Armiño, Pawel Ksieniewicz and Paolo Gastaldo Received: 21 April 2021 Accepted: 21 May 2021 Published: 27 May 2021 Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affil- iations. Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). 1 Department of Software Engineering, Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence (DaSCI), University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain; rosana@ugr.es (R.M.); ivanpc@ugr.es (I.P.); fjmelero@ugr.es (F.J.M.) 2 Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence (DaSCI), University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain; dmolina@decsai.ugr.es (D.M.); emcamara@decsai.ugr.es (E.M.-C.); herrera@decsai.ugr.es (F.H.) 3 Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan 4 Department of Structural Mechanics and Hydraulic Engineering, Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence (DaSCI), University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain; mchiachio@ugr.es (M.C.); jchiachio@ugr.es (J.C.) 5 Faculty of Arts, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain; pablogarciamoral@gmail.com 6 Ferrovial S.A., C/ Principe de Vergara 135, 28002 Madrid, Spain; barbara.fernandez@ferrovial.com (B.F.); cmoral@ferrovial.com (C.M.); rmarchena@ci3.es (R.M.) 7 Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain (RAES), 28005 Madrid, Spain; jpvargas@raing.es * Correspondence: zerjioi@ugr.es Abstract: The United Nations Agenda 2030 established 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a guideline to guarantee a sustainable worldwide development. Recent advances in artificial intelligence and other digital technologies have already changed several areas of modern society, and they could be very useful to reach these sustainable goals. In this paper we propose a novel decision making model based on surveys that ranks recommendations on the use of different artificial intelligence and related technologies to achieve the SDGs. According to the surveys, our decision making method is able to determine which of these technologies are worth investing in to lead new research to successfully tackle with sustainability challenges. Keywords: Sustainable Development Goals; artificial intelligence; emerging digital technologies; decision making 1. Introduction The Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations as a blueprint to achieve a global development for a more sustainable future for all peo- ple, reducing the poverty, protecting the environment, and producing global peace and prosperity [1]. Artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital technologies, such as big data, virtual and augmented reality, blockchain, etc. are strongly impacting in our lives [2,3], producing a continuous transformation in the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution [4], and changing many fields in our daily life due to its versatility. Thus, AI can be foreseen to have a similar impact to tackle these SDGs [5,6]. In a recent work [5], after a comprehensive literature review, the role that AI and digital technologies could play in the different SDGs was presented, and it provides several recommendations on how these technologies can help to achieve each of the SDGs. Due Sustainability 2021, 13, 6038. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13116038 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability