NeuroAI and Beyond: Bridging Between Advances in Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence

arXiv:2604.18637v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have made impressive progress in recent years but remain only loosely interconnected. Based on a workshop convened by the National Science Foundation in August 2025, we identify three fundamental capability gaps in current AI: the inability to interact with the physical world, inadequate learning that produces brittle systems, and unsustainable energy and data inefficiency. We describe the neuroscience principles that address each: co-design of body and controller, prediction through interaction, multi-scale learning with neuromodulatory control, hierarchical distributed architectures, and sparse event-driven computation. We present a research roadmap organized around these principles at near, mid, and long-term horizons. We argue that realizing this program requires a new generation of researchers trained across the boundary between neuroscience and engineering, and describe the institutional conditions: interdisciplinary training, hardware access, community standards, and ethics, needed to support them. We conclude that NeuroAI, neuroscience-informed artificial intelligence, has the potential to overcome limitations of current AI while deepening our understanding of biological neural computation.

Authors:Anthony Zador, Jean-Marc Fellous, Terrence Sejnowski, Gina Adam, James B Aimone, Akwasi Akwaboah, Yiannis Aloimonos, Carmen Amo Alonso, Chiara Bartolozzi, Michael J. Bennington, Michael Berry, Bing W. Brunton, Gert Cauwenberghs, Hillel J. Chiel, Tobi Delbruck, John Doyle, Jason Eshraghian, Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Cornelia Fermuller, Matthew Jacobsen, Ali A. Minai, Barbara Oakley, Alexander G. Ororbia II, Joe Paton, Blake Richards, Yulia Sandamirskaya, Abhronil Sengupta, Shihab Shamma, Michael P. Stryker, Seong Jong Yoo, Steven W. Zucker

Abstract:Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have made impressive progress in recent years but remain only loosely interconnected. Based on a workshop convened by the National Science Foundation in August 2025, we identify three fundamental capability gaps in current AI: the inability to interact with the physical world, inadequate learning that produces brittle systems, and unsustainable energy and data inefficiency. We describe the neuroscience principles that address each: co-design of body and controller, prediction through interaction, multi-scale learning with neuromodulatory control, hierarchical distributed architectures, and sparse event-driven computation. We present a research roadmap organized around these principles at near, mid, and long-term horizons. We argue that realizing this program requires a new generation of researchers trained across the boundary between neuroscience and engineering, and describe the institutional conditions: interdisciplinary training, hardware access, community standards, and ethics, needed to support them. We conclude that NeuroAI, neuroscience-informed artificial intelligence, has the potential to overcome limitations of current AI while deepening our understanding of biological neural computation.

Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computers and Society (cs.CY)

arXiv:2604.18637 [q-bio.NC]

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