AI-Based Education for Sustainability and the Promotion of Lifestyle and Healthy Diet

Introduction

During the last decades, the development of digital tools and computer-based means has metamorphosed the education to shape an up-to-date and innovative learning system in both virtual and real spaces by means of online and face-to-face workplaces. The recent advances in the artificial intelligence (AI) field boosted substantially these progresses to cross-over interdisciplinary learning sciences (informatics, statistics, pedagogy, linguistics, neuropsychology, sociology, …) and targeting as much as possible a personalized education to a greater extent focused on adaptive learning environments and using a panoply of flexible and inclusive means (Pai et al., 2021). While the classic education models were more built on the teachers’ pedagogical knowledge skills, the cognitive load, and the formative return, the increasingly available amounts of diversified data related to education with the advent of Big Data significantly facilitated and accelerated the emergence of theoretical and practical research works on the issues of the collection, assessment, and analysis of the accumulated data (Hamal et al., 2022). Presently, pedagogic experts are incessantly seeking state-of-the-art educational techniques that could be ever more attractive for digital teaching, e-coaching, and e-learning. Besides, the learning analytics have motivated the educational institutions to analyse and predict the feedback of their learners while being continuously challenged by a greater pressure at all levels of education to meet the high-ranking accreditation standards (Hamal et al., 2022). Simultaneously, the imminent ecological issues are growingly raising public awareness about the pessimistic predicated scenarios because of the global warming of the planet, thus necessitating to engage both AI and education to actively contribute to the sustainable management of these matters and help developing preventive measurements (Onyeaka et al. 2023). The impact of these adversities will undeniably affect different facets of life, in particular provoking a remarkable declining growth in global agricultural productivity which will not be able to cover the need of a constantly expanding population predicted to exceed nine billions by 2050 (Béné et al., 2015). Filho et al. (2022) also evoked the involvement of conflicts and wars in food deprivation, especially i.e., the recent unforeseen war in Ukraine which has severely damaged its wheat reserves and dropped down their export, thus aggravating the extension of food insecurity, particularly in the poorer.