According to a report by Business Insider, Elon Musk is the father of twin children with current Neuralink CEO Siobhan Zillis. Business Insider shared a court document from this May with Zilis and Musk petitioning to change both children’s names so that “the children’s last name will be their father’s and their mother’s last name will be contained in their father’s name “. CNN Business obtained court documents from Travis County, Texas, showing the petition was filed in April 2022 and received in May.
In what appeared to be a response to the article, Musk tweeted: “I’m doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis. Collapsing birth rates are the greatest danger civilization has ever faced,” followed by “remember my words, they are sadly true.”
Remember my words, they are unfortunately true
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 7, 2022
According to a LinkedIn page, Zilis graduated from Yale and worked at Neuralink, Musk’s company focused on building brain-computer interface technology, since 2017. She also lists work at Tesla Motors from 2017 to 2019. working on AI with autopilot and chip design teams, as well as work starting in 2016 with OpenAI, the nonprofit AI safety group that Musk helped found. She has been a board member of OpenAI since 2020. Speaking at the Canadian AI Undergraduate Conference last year, she said she met Musk during her role at OpenAI.
Zillis is from Canada, and her profile lists board seats at two Canadian AI organizations in the past. As mentioned in the Business Insider report, she appeared on the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2015 based on her role as a founding member of the investment team at Bloomberg Beta. She has written about the state of machine learning and starred in Do You Trust This Computer?, a documentary about the challenges of AI.
In May, Business Insider reported that one of Elon’s other companies, SpaceX, paid the flight attendant $250,000 in exchange for not suing or speaking about her claim that the executive exposed himself and propositioned her for sex. In a tweet at the time, Musk said: “For the record, these wild allegations are completely false.” Women are suing Tesla for “rampant” sexual harassment, which some say was exacerbated by Musk’s tweets, and last year five former SpaceX employees spoke to The Verge about the sexual harassment culture they experienced working there.
In April, a Vanity Fair report revealed that Elon Musk had a second child, who was born via surrogate in late 2021, with his ex-partner, singer Grimes, in addition to their son X Æ A-12. Musk now has nine known children, which includes the five he cited as the reason for building an elementary school for the children of SpaceX employees.
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