With advances in theory and supercomputing, we are beginning to quantitatively understand nuclear structure and interactions directly from the fundamental quark and gluon degrees of freedom of the Standard Model. I will outline the current status and challenges in this arena and show how first-principles lattice field theory calculations impact studies from the physics of the electron-ion collider through to theory predictions of dark matter cross-sections at underground detectors. The rapid progress in this field has been possible because of new algorithms, but challenges still remain to achieve full systematic control. I will outline how the nascent field of ‘ab-initio AI’ has the potential to enable currently intractable calculations to reveal the physics of nuclei from the Standard Model.
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