In recent years, AI’s tremendous evolution enables new rates of innovation and productivity gains. The AI Institute for Next-Generation Food Systems (AIFS) at the University of California (UC) Davis, US, centers around AI to overcome key challenges in food production for sustainable nutrition. Nutrition Insight discusses the potential of AI in nutrition industries with AIFS director Ilias Tagkopoulos, Ph.D., professor of Computer Science at the UC Davis Genome Center.