Ashland City, Tennessee – A man of Tennessee He was accused of committing an act of terrorism after threatening to set fire to a company from the company of Artificial intelligenceXai, because he was upset with his founder, Elon Muskand the president Donald Trumpthe authorities reported.
Ethan Paul Early, 25 years old and resident of Ashland City, was arrested and accused on February 20 after talking to a police officer about the threatsaccording to an affidavit. He was signed in jail with a bail of $ 500,000, according to judicial records. A lawyer who appears in Early’s judicial records did not immediately return a call for comments.
A police officer in Ashland City, northwest of Nashville, said he received a call from an Early friend who was worried after the suspect declared that he wanted to set fire to one of Musk’s data centers because he was upset with the technology and Trump industry magnate, according to the affidavit.
The person who called the police reported that Early said she intended to use thermitus and that she had already begun to buy the material to make the compound, which generates intense heat.
The agent appeared at Early’s house and asked him what he thought of wanting to cause the fire, the affidavit indicates. Early said Musk had a “AI factory” in Memphis. The artificial intelligence company of Musk, XAI, operates a supercomputer in Memphis, located about 200 miles west Ashland City.
Early told the policeman that he was no longer planning to execute his plan “and that he had good friends who had deterred him,” said the affidavit.
“The defendant admitted that he had involved too much in politics and that he had” too far away, “according to the affidavit.
Early told the agent that he felt that “he had to do something” and that he was “ashamed of himself for having gotten carried away,” according to the affidavit.
The document does not indicate exactly what bothered Early, who told the policeman that he had wasted from the material.
Musk, through the government efficiency department, has been working to reduce the size of the federal government during Trump’s presidency. These cuts include layoffs of government workers.