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

This Import AI issue covers Toby Ord's analysis of AI swarms as a form of inference-scaling that trades more tokens for less wall-clock time, with diminishing returns as agent counts grow; CSAIP polling finding 61% of Americans consider voluntary corporate AI self-governance "not enough"; Google DeepMind's SynthID Bio watermarking methods for synthetic biology; C5R Corp's SciUniverse benchmark of 92 lab tasks where Claude Fable 5.1 leads at 45.3% pass rate; and a DeepMind paper proposing an Automated Scientific Economy with proof of ideation, ex-ante evaluation, brokerage and validation payouts.