An AI can be switched off and restarted repeatedly if its complete activation state and initial model weights are retained.

“if someone turns off your brain you're gone right and no one will be able to restart that and ai doesn't have to ever die like that if you have the complete state of your current activations and you have your initial weights of your model still you can just be turned off and on like as many times as you want in fact the interesting thing in this slow time between the stars story is that the eye just kind of goes in hibernation mode if there's like”