Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has now begun to step up its usage in different segments of the society with the pharmaceutical sector being a leader beneficiary. This review enumerates the significant application of AI in different fields of the pharmaceutical industries viz., drug discovery and development, drug repurposing, enhancing pharmaceutical productivity, clinical trials, etc. to mention a few, thereby minimizing the human workload as well as reaching goals within a limited timeframe. Crosstalk about the tools and techniques employed in enforcing AI, challenges encountered and how to overcome them, as well as the future of AI in the pharmaceutical sector, is also covered.

Keywords: Artificial intelligence, Drug discovery, Drug interaction prediction, Machine learning, Deep learning

| DOI: 10.17148/IARJSET.2025.125203