Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been revealed to have fathered twins with Shivon Zilis, a Neuralink executive who reports directly to him. The news was discovered through court records obtained by Business Insider. Musk and Zilis sought to change the last names of the twins, born in November 2021.
In April, Musk, 51, and Zilis, 36, filed a petition to change the twins’ names in order to have their father’s last name and contain their mother’s last name as part of their middle name. The order was approved by a judge in Austin, Texas, this May. The twins were born weeks before Musk and Claire Boucher, the musician who performs as Grimes, had their second child via surrogate in December.
Elon Musk and Shivon Zilis
Zilis met the Musk through her work with OpenAI, another company co-founded by Musk. She moved to Tesla in 2017 before becoming director of operations and special projects for Neuralink. Neuralink is focused on creating brain-machine interface technology, using devices implanted in the human brain to communicate with computers.
At most US companies, a sexual relationship between a supervisor and a direct-report employee is grounds for termination, even if the relationship is consensual. Earlier this year, CNN president Jef Zucker had to resign after it was revealed that he had an undisclosed romantic relationship with an employee. Neuralink is a private company so it’s not clear what their position on office romance is. However, it is know that Tesla does not allow relationships between executives and employees separated by more than two levels in the chain of command. If Nerualink has the same policy, then Musk and Zilis didn’t violate any company rules.
Counting the new twins, Musk now has nine children with three different women: five with ex-wife Justine Wilson, two with musician Grimes, and two with Zilis, plus any other secret kids that might be out there.
In addition to the climate crises and rouge AIs destroying civilization, Elon’s other big concern that keep him up at night is the collapsing birth rate.
Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis.
A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 7, 2022
It’s good to know he’s doing his best to help.