Twitter CEO Elon Musk said during an interview Tuesday night that the government needs to have a plan to physically shut down the power grid in areas that house “heavy duty” artificial intelligence servers in case mankind ever lost control of the AI.

Musk told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that “really heavy duty intelligence” would be concentrated in only a limited number of areas on earth and that it’ll be so concentrated that they can be located from space using their heat signature.

“I’m not suggesting we go and blow up the service centers right now, but there may be some — it may be wise to have some sort of contingency plan where the government’s got an ability to shut down power to these service centers,” he said. “Like you don’t have to blow it up. You can just cut the power.”

When asked at what point it might be time to cut the power, Musk said if humans “lost control of some super AI, like for some reason, like the things that would normally work to do a passive shutdown, like the administrator passwords, if they somehow stop working where we can’t slow down or get out.”

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Elon Musk says there should be some kind of “Off Switch” in the case that we lose control of A.I. pic.twitter.com/dIlXIs4feR

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TUCKER CARLSON: You’ve heard people say we should just blow up the server farms because there’s no way that once this gets rolling, there’s no way to slow it down. What do you think of that?

ELON MUSK: Well, the really heavy duty intelligence is not going to be distributed all over the place. It’ll be in a limited number of service centers. If you say like very — like very sort of deep A.I., heavy duty A.I.

It’s not going to be in your laptop or your phone. It’s going to be in a situation where there’s like 100,000 really powerful computers working together in a service center. So it’s not like subtle and there are — there are limited number of places where that can happen.

In fact, you could — if you can just — you can just look at the heat signature from space.

CARLSON: Yeah.

MUSK: And it’s — it’ll be very obvious. Now, I’m not suggesting we go and blow up the service centers right now, but there may be some — it may be wise to have some sort of contingency plan where the government’s got an ability to shut down power to these service centers. Like you don’t have to blow it up. You can just cut the power.

CARLSON: And what would trip —

MUSK: And we’ll cut connectivity as well. That’s another way.

CARLSON: Right. But what would trip that switch, do you think, in your mind, what would be the threshold that you’d have to pass to warrant the government cutting off your power or cutting off your signal?

MUSK: Well, I mean, I guess if we lost control of some super A.I., like for some reason, like the things that would normally work to do a passive shutdown, like the administrator passwords, if they somehow stop working where we can’t slow down or get out.

I’m not sure. I don’t have a precise answer, but if there’s something that we’re concerned about and are unable to stop it with software commands, then we probably want to have some kind of hardware off switch.

CARLSON: Yes.

MUSK: I think you know, can’t hurt.

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Fox News settled a bombshell defamation suit stemming from the 2020 election by paying Dominion Voting Systems nearly $800 million just hours after the the beginning of a trial that would have seen some of the cable news behemoth’s biggest stars take the witness stand.

The dramatic settlement also spared Fox News’ 92-year-old founder, Rupert Murdoch, from testifying. The deal in the Wilmington, Delaware, case came in the early afternoon, following the earlier selection of 12 jurors and a dozen alternates.

“The case has been resolved, and it’s been resolved because of you,” state Superior Court Judge Eric Davis told jurors.

A Fox News spokesperson confirmed the settlement had been reached.

“We are pleased to have reached a settlement of our dispute with Dominion Voting Systems,” the spokesperson said. “We acknowledge the Court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false.”

Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson stated immediately after the deal that “we wish to express our deepest appreciation” to the court, and said the settlement was for just over $787 million.

Dominion sued Fox and its parent company Fox Corporation, claiming it knowingly spread false claims about its vote-counting equipment following the 2020 election. Fox guests and allegedly some hosts claimed Dominion had paid government bribes, switched votes, and was founded in Venezuela to rig elections for Hugo Chávez.

BREAKING: Fox News has abruptly settled the defamation case brought by Dominion, after a trial jury was selected and lawyers waited in the courtroom to give their openings

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“In the coming weeks, we will prove Fox spread lies causing enormous damage to Dominion,” a Dominion spokesperson said in a statement the morning of the trial. “We look forward to trial.”

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The trial was not to be televised, but likely would have seen some of the network’s biggest stars take the stand in addition to Murdoch and his son, Lachlan Murdoch. Prime-time hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity were expected to testify, as well as Fox Business Network Maria Bartiromo and onetime weekend host Jeanine Pirro.

Dominion was prepared to show the jury internal messages from Fox hosts and executives in which they appeared to express knowledge that the claims about Dominion were false. The case could have had major implications for the media, as the landmark 1964 U.S. Supreme Court case Times v. Sullivan held that a news organization must be shown to have acted with actual malice to be found guilty of defamation.