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Import AI 475: Swarm scaling; Google DeepMind watermarks biology; and the AI science economy

Jack Clark · 5 Oct 2026

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  1. Our reading

    AI systems are getting good at performing increasingly automated science, as they already have at automated AI R&D.

    Their wordsIn the same way that 2026 has been a year of "warning shots" about the growing capabilities of AI systems at performing automated AI R&D, I now think the same is true of how good AI systems are getting at performing increasingly automated science.

  2. Our reading

    If AI systems can truly accelerate human scientists, we should prepare for a boom in demand for parts of the scientific supply chain.

    Their wordsIf AI systems are able to truly accelerate human scientists - and based on lots of coverage in this newsletter in 2026 and 2025 it seems like they might - then we should be prepared for an associated boom in the demand for aspects of the scientific supply chain.

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