Recent successes of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques can be leveraged to obtain quantitative insights into how intrinsically disordered proteins function.• Review highlights the use of AI/ML techniques to characterize the intrinsic statistical coupling in IDP atomistic fluctuations involved in coupled folding and binding processes using linear, non-linear, and hybrid approaches.• AI/ML methods can also be used to learn force-field parameters from long time-scale simulations as well as used to automatically coarse-grain IDP simulations.• Bayesian inference methods in conjunction with AI/ML methods can be used to integrate sparse experimental observables to obtain a comprehensive picture of how IDPs function.