Recognizing AI’s potential to create healthier and more sustainable nutrition, the AI Institute for Next-Generation Food Systems (AIFS) aims to transform the food system from developing and growing new varieties to food production and nutrition. The US Department of Agriculture-backed AI Institute, headquartered at the University of California (UC), Davis, views AI as the “connective tissue that brings this all together.”Ilias Tagkopoulos, Ph.D., AIFS director, tells Nutrition Insight that the multi-trillion-dollar food industry is ripe for disruption. “We have mapped only a small percentage of the universe of chemicals in our food, and there is so much to learn on what they do to our health.”
