Elon Musk confirmed that he recently had a third baby with Shivon Zilis, head of Neuralink, who works for his brain implant company.
Musk, 52, was accused of keeping the birth of the child – his 12th in total – a secret after news of the birth was made public by the media.
The billionaire businessman says there was never any question of keeping the affair a secret, but issuing a press release would also have been “bizarre”, even if the baby’s name and sex were not revealed. not been revealed.
“As for ‘begotten in secret,’ that is also false. All of our friends and family know this. Not issuing a press release, which would be weird, doesn’t mean “secret,” Musk told Page Six about the birth.
The baby, who was reportedly born earlier this year, was first mentioned in a Bloomberg report titled “Elon Wants You to Have More Babies.”
The article addresses concerns previously shared by X and Tesla owners regarding declining population rates.
“The collapse of the birth rate is by far the greatest danger facing civilization,” he tweeted in the past.
Musk is a fanatic when it comes to possible “demographic collapse,” which he says poses a greater risk to the world than global warming.
This became clear in a recent exchange on X between Musk and Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders, in which the Dutch politician warned of a collapse of Western values in his country due to the open borders, a position shared by other European populists. .
“Okay,” Musk replied. “But if the birth rate remains as low as it is (1.6), your Dutch nation will die out with its own hands.”
“Many countries are already well below the replacement rate, and the trend indicates that almost all will be. This is simply a fact, not a “debunked theory,” Musk previously said.
“The replacement rate is 2.1 children, and it is clear that, globally, we will soon fall below this figure.”
In an interview with Tucker Carlson in 2023, Musk shared similar views.
“Once you have birth control, abortions and so on, you can still satisfy the limbic instinct but not procreate.” Will civilization end with a bang or a whimper? Well, we’re currently trying to end with a moan in the adult diapers, which is depressing as hell,” he said.
The US Census Bureau disagrees with these opinions, noting that the the world population is not declining.
100 years ago, there were 2 billion people alive, and that number surpassed 8 billion last year.
United Nations data predicts that figure will continue to rise until it reaches 10 billion by 2100 – and although there is unlikely to be a collapse.
Musk and Zilis, who works as Neuralink Corp.’s director of special projects, already share two-and-a-half-year-old twins, Strider and Azure, born in November 2021. The couple has featured in several of Zilis’ films. posts on social networks.
Musk’s complicated personal life has involved three marriages and three divorces, two of each with the same woman, as well as eight children from two long-term romances as well as the twins with Zilis whom they conceived through in vitro fertilization.
Besides his three children with Zilis, he also shares three with musician Grimes.
Grimes is currently engaged in a legal battle with Musk and is suing him over his parental rights to their three children.
Last September, a feud broke out between Grimes accusing the SpaceX founder of preventing her from seeing her son, and Neuralink director Shivon Zilis, mother of two of Musk’s children, of blocking her on social media .
But the couple appear to have buried the hatchet, with Grimes saying she was “excited to become friends” with Zilis and for their “kids to grow up together.”
Grimes wrote about X at the time: “Women are so often pitted against each other. In speaking with Shivon, it’s very evident that she is an amazing human and we both just want what’s best for our children.
Zilis called Grimes “tough guy” in response and said their lengthy conversation, during which the air was cleared, was “incredibly overdue.”
Elon began dating Grimes in April 2018. The quirky couple made headlines when they made their red carpet debut at the Met Gala the following month.
Nonetheless, Musk has been seen with his four-year-old son, X (born X Æ A-12 in May 2020), at various events, including the Super Bowl in Las Vegas.
Their second child Exa Dark Sideræl, who is named Y, was born via surrogate in December 2021.
Musk’s other children are the result of his union with his first ex-wife, Canadian author Justine Wilson.
The couple share twins Griffin and Xavier, born in 2004, and triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian with his ex-wife.
Xavier – now aged 20 – has since changed sex to become a woman. Her name is Vivian and she has ditched her father’s famous last name – after telling the court she “no longer wishes to be related” to him “in any way”.
Musk and Wilson’s eldest child, Nevada, tragically died at just 10 weeks old from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in 2002.
Zilis, born in Ontario, Canada, met Musk through OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research and deployment nonprofit that Musk co-founded in 2015, Insider reported.
Zilis is Musk’s “intellectual companion on artificial intelligence since the creation of OpenAI.”
In 2015, Zilis was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in the venture capital category and in 2017, she joined Neuralink, Musk’s brain chip company, as director of operations and special projects, according to her profile LinkedIn.
She studied economics and philosophy at Yale, where she also played as a goalie on the women’s ice hockey team.
Musk and Zilis filed a motion in April 2022 to change the twins’ names to “carry their father’s last name and contain their mother’s last name in their middle name,” according to court documents.