A CERN for AI-assisted science?

[This is a guest post by Dimitris Koukoulopoulos. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] At the 2026 World Cup semifinal, England led Argentina 1-0 with less than twenty minutes left. And then the momentum completely changed: England switched to a much more defensive formation, withdrawing attacking players and retreating deeper. The Argentinians started attacking in waves. They equalized in the 85th minute and scored the winner in stoppage time. England’s defeat offers a valuable lesson: when trying to avoid the worst outcome, fear and passivity are not your friends. The recent announcement by OpenAI of a solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize problem, and the controversy surrounding the way it was obtained and released, should be a wake-up call for the scientific community. We need to come together quickly and develop an institutional response to this new reality. Complacency and defeatism are not an appropriate…