AI for Science: Three Walls, Eight Hundred Million People, and a Copernican Revolution

A few days ago, I attended a conference where the topic shifted to how AI is changing scientific research. It was supposed to be a closing session, but the conversation wouldn't stop. Several interesting points didn't get fully explored, so I've been thinking them over for the past two days and decided to jot them down. 1. AI Writing Papers Is Already the Norm; the Real Question Is the Paper Itself The fact that AI writes papers has become so commonplace it barely needs discussion. In a 2025 Nat