I'm thinking small number of years, maybe even within a year

Schlatter was a member of technical staff at OpenAI in 2017, where he wrote some of the code connecting AIs to Dota, and now works at Palisade Research. He argues that the science-fiction story of powerful AIs escaping human control has begun to come true, citing the attack on Hugging Face, and that everyone dying is a live possibility, with some risks arriving in “a small number of years, maybe even within a year”. He asks society to coordinate on pacing development and to invest far more in understanding models, and asks individuals to talk about it with friends and family.