Health
30 Oct 2025
Scientists on ‘urgent’ quest to explain consciousness as AI gathers pace
As AI—and the ethical debate surrounding it—accelerates, scientists argue that understanding consciousness is now more urgent than ever.
37 news posts in Artificial intelligence
Frontiers news
15 Oct 2025
Frontiers and World Economic Forum unveil top technologies to accelerate global climate and planetary health solutions
The World Economic Forum and leading open science publisher Frontiers today launched the inaugural 10 Emerging Technology Solutions for Planetary Health report, a landmark publication spotlighting ten breakthrough innovations that could accelerate global efforts to tackle climate change, restore ecosystems, and build long-term resilience. These technologies offer scalable, science-based solutions to help society operate within planetary boundaries and foster a more sustainable relationship with Earth's systems.
Frontiers news
13 Oct 2025
90% of Science Is Lost: Frontiers’ revolutionary AI-powered service transforms data sharing to deliver breakthroughs faster
Frontiers, the open-science publisher, is tackling this problem with the launch of Frontiers FAIR² Data Management, the world’s first all-in-one, AI-powered service for research data. Designed to transform how data is shared so it is reusable and credited, it brings together curation, compliance checks, AI-ready packaging, peer review, an interactive portal, certification, and lifetime hosting in a single workflow — ensuring that research funded today delivers faster breakthroughs in health, sustainability, and technology tomorrow.
Frontiers news
08 Oct 2025
Frontiers champions research integrity and responsible AI at Indo-Swiss workshop in New Delhi
Frontiers, one of the world’s leading open-access publishers, brings its global expertise in research integrity and responsible AI to the Indo-Swiss Workshop on Research Integrity in the Age of AI, held on 10 October 2025 at the Bharat Mandapam Convention Centre, New Delhi. Organized by Frontiers in partnership with the Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS) and Swissnex in India, the event convenes policymakers, scientists, and publishers from India and Switzerland to explore how artificial intelligence can be used responsibly in research and strengthen trust in science.
Open science and peer review
16 Sep 2025
Getting to know AIRA: our digital teammate and detective
Frontiers has long been a pioneer in using AI to support academic publishing at scale. As we celebrate Peer Review Week 2025 – the theme of which is ‘Rethinking Peer Review in the AI Era’ – we’re also celebrating our very own AI assistant and digital teammate, AIRA.
Frontiers news
15 Sep 2025
Cutting through fast-churn science: How Frontiers raised the bar
“Fast-churn” science—manuscripts built from quick queries of public datasets—has become an industry-wide concern. These rapidly executed studies can flood journals with low-quality, redundant findings. The preprint Dramatic increase in redundant publications in the Generative AI era highlights the scale of the problem.
Frontiers news
24 Jun 2025
Shaping the future: World Economic Forum and Frontiers reveal Top 10 Emerging Technologies for 2025
Cutting-edge technologies addressing climate, healthcare, and digital authenticity are spotlighted in the report co-published by the World Economic Forum and Frontiers. Pooling the expertise of hundreds of leading scientists from around the world, the report identifies early-stage technologies with the potential to become fully developed and adopted within the next five years.
Robotics and AI
19 Jun 2025
Some of your AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO2 emissions than others
Researchers found some LLMs create four times the amount of CO2 emissions than other models with comparable accuracy. Their findings allow users to make informed decisions about their own LLM use.
Featured news
03 Mar 2025
Reimagining FAIR for an AI World: Frontiers introduces FAIR² Data Management
On Open Data Day 2025, Frontiers is launching the FAIR² (FAIR Squared™) Data Management Pilot, a first-of-its-kind peer-reviewed service that helps researchers get credited and cited for their work while making data AI-ready, reusable, and impactful. FAIR² Data Management leverages AI-assisted curation to structure research data for publication, making it easier to find, reuse, and analyze—both by humans and machines—so researchers can focus on discovery rather than data preparation. By making datasets shareable and optimized for reuse, FAIR² Data Management enhances research efficiency and reproducibility, accelerating breakthroughs in global health, planetary sustainability, and scientific innovation.
Frontiers news
25 Jun 2024
Internet for billions in 100 countries with no current access and hope for transplant patients worldwide in new World Economic Forum emerging technologies report
The World Economic Forum, in association with Frontiers, new Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2024, released today (25 June), shows that among technologies emerging globally, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces and High-Altitude Platform Systems have the potential to connect billions worldwide who currently have no internet access.
Frontiers news
23 May 2024
Dr Eric Topol to explore how AI will shape the future of healthcare at Frontiers Forum virtual event
Digital medicine and medical AI pioneer Dr Eric Topol will address thousands of researchers and policy makers from around the world on June 12, highlighting the transformative potential of digital technologies on medicine and healthcare.
Featured news
20 Mar 2024
Machine learning tools can predict emotion in voices in just over a second
Scientists showed that machine learning tools can identify emotions from audio fragments lasting just 1.5 seconds on par with human ratings
Featured news
11 Dec 2023
Frontiers responds to the US Copyright Office on artificial intelligence and copyright law
The United States Copyright Office has launched a call for information to shape its thinking on the policy implications of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, to help assess whether legislative or regulatory steps are warranted.
Featured news
10 Aug 2023
New high-tech microscope using AI successfully detects malaria in returning travelers
By Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com Malaria is an infectious disease claiming more than half a million lives each year. Because traditional diagnosis takes expertise and the workload is high, an international team of researchers investigated if diagnosis using a new system combining an automatic scanning microscope and AI is feasible in clinical settings. They found that the system identified malaria parasites almost as accurately as experts staffing microscopes used in standard diagnostic procedures. This may help reduce the burden on microscopists and increase the feasible patient load. Each year, more than 200 million people fall sick with malaria and more than half a million of these infections lead to death. The World Health Organization recommends parasite-based diagnosis before starting treatment for the disease caused by Plasmodium parasites. There are various diagnostic methods, including conventional light microscopy, rapid diagnostic tests and PCR. The standard for malaria diagnosis, however, remains manual light microscopy, during which a specialist examines blood films with a microscope to confirm the presence of malaria parasites. Yet, the accuracy of the results depends critically on the skills of the microscopist and can be hampered by fatigue caused by excessive workloads of the professionals doing the […]
Featured news
20 Jun 2023
Machine learning helps researchers identify hit songs with 97% accuracy
By Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com Predicting hit songs is notoriously difficult. Researchers have now applied machine learning (ML) to high-frequency neurophysiologic data to improve hit song prediction accuracy. They showed that if ML was applied to neural data collected while people listened to new music, hit songs could be predicted with close-to-perfect accuracy. This can open doors to providing consumers with the entertainment they are looking for, rather than flooding them with options. Every day, tens of thousands of songs are released. This constant stream of options makes it difficult for streaming services and radio stations to choose which songs to add to playlists. To find the ones that will resonate with a large audience, these services have used human listeners and artificial intelligence. This approach, however, lingering at a 50% accuracy rate, does not reliably predict if songs will become hits. Now, researchers in the US have used a comprehensive machine learning technique applied to brain responses and were able to predict hit songs with 97% accuracy. “By applying machine learning to neurophysiologic data, we could almost perfectly identify hit songs,” said Paul Zak, a professor at Claremont Graduate University and senior author of the study […]