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According to a report by Business Insider<\/em>, Elon Musk is the father of twin children with current Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis. Business Insider<\/em> shared a court document from this May with Zilis and Musk petitioning for a name change for both children, making \u201cthe children\u2019s last name to be their father\u2019s, and for their mother\u2019s last name to be contained in their middle name.\u201d CNN Business obtained a Travis County, Texas, court docket showing the petition was filed in April 2022 and obtained in May.<\/p>\n

Seemingly in response to the article, Musk tweeted<\/a>, \u201cDoing my best to help the underpopulation crisis. A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far,\u201d followed by \u201cmark my words, they are sadly true.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Mark my words, they are sadly true<\/p>\n

\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 7, 2022<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

According to a LinkedIn page, Zilis is a Yale graduate and has worked at Neuralink, Musk\u2019s company focused on building brain-computer interface technology, since 2017. She also lists a job at Tesla Motors from 2017 through 2019 working on AI with the Autopilot and chip design teams as well as employment starting in 2016 with OpenAI, the nonprofit AI safety group Musk helped found. She has been a board member of OpenAI since 2020. Speaking during the Canadian Undergraduate Conference on AI last year, she said she met Musk through her role with OpenAI.<\/p>\n

Zilis is from Canada, and her profile lists board seats at two Canadian AI organizations in the past. As the Business Insider<\/em> report mentioned, she appeared on a Forbes\u2019<\/em> 30 under 30 list in 2015 based on her role as a founding member of the investment team at Bloomberg Beta. She\u2019s written about the state of machine learning and was in Do You Trust This Computer?<\/em>, a documentary about the challenges of AI.<\/p>\n

In May, Business Insider<\/em> reported that one of Elon\u2019s other companies, SpaceX, paid a flight attendant $250,000 in exchange for not suing or speaking out about her allegation that the executive exposed himself and propositioned her for sex. In a tweet<\/a> at that time, Musk said, \u201cFor the record, those wild accusations are utterly untrue.\u201d Women are suing Tesla over \u201crampant\u201d sexual harassment that some claim had been worsened by Musk\u2019s tweets, and last year, five former SpaceX employees spoke to The Verge<\/em> about the culture of sexual harassment they experienced working there.<\/p>\n

In April, a Vanity Fair<\/em> report revealed that Elon Musk had a second child who was born via surrogate in late 2021 with his former partner, the singer Grimes, in addition to their son X \u00c6 A-12. Musk now has nine known children, which include the five he cited as a reason for building a grade school for the children of SpaceX employees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n