Nature . 2025 Feb;638(8051):623-635.doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-08564-w. Epub 2025 Feb 19. Infectious disease threats to individual and public health are numerous, varied and frequently unexpected. Artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies, which are already supporting human decision making in economics, medicine and social science, have the potential to transform the scope and power of infectious disease epidemiology