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title: "Import AI 459: AI oversight is difficult; scaling laws for protein folding models; and pricing the extinction risk of AI systems"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/import-ai-459-ai-oversight-is-difficult-scaling-laws-for-protein-folding-models-and-pricing-the-e-etcjgwe4o
source_url: https://jack-clark.net/2026/06/01/import-ai-459-ai-oversight-is-difficult-scaling-laws-for-protein-folding-models-and-pricing-the-extinction-risk-of-ai-systems
type: article
source: "Import AI "
published: 2026-06-01T14:00:32.249Z
updated: 2026-06-01T14:00:59.675Z
tags: ["ai-safety", "ai-governance"]
reading_time: 18
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
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# Import AI 459: AI oversight is difficult; scaling laws for protein folding models; and pricing the extinction risk of AI systems

**[Import AI ](https://daily.dev/sources/jackclark)** · 18 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A curated AI research newsletter covering four main topics: (1) economists finding the US AI economy grows at ~2,600% per year in quality-adjusted terms but is largely invisible in GDP statistics, with recommendations for better measurement; (2) UK AI Security Institute research explaining why using AI to oversee AI alignment is harder than assumed, due to correlated errors, alien mistakes, and non-human-evaluable arguments; (3) Biohub's release of ESMFold2, a protein structure prediction model that outperforms AlphaFold 3 and demonstrates scaling laws in biological AI; (4) Australian politician Andrew Leigh's speech arguing economists must price extinction risk from AI, including governance of recursive self-improvement and international coordination. The issue closes with a sci-fi short story about safely interviewing potentially dangerous resurrected AI minds.

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