Elon Musk pictured for the first time with the Neuralink director and the twins they’ve been quietly dating

• Biographer Walter Isaacson gave an insight into Elon Musk’s Relationship with Shivon Zilis.

• Zilis is the director of Musk’s brain chip company, who secretly gave birth to twins with the billionaire.

• Isaacson said he went to Zili’s house earlier this year to speak to Musk about the AI ​​threat.

Author Walter Isaacson gave an insight into Elon Musk’s relationship Shivon Zilisa Neuralink director and mother of two of Musk’s children, in a on Wednesday abstract of his upcoming Biography about the Tesla CEO.

The biographer, who has followed Musk for about three years, posted a picture of Musk and Zilis with their two children in tow on X, formerly known as Twitter. In the photo, the then 16-month-old twins sit on Zilis and Musk’s laps.

Insider revealed this for the first time last year Musk had quietly fathered a pair of twins with Zilis in November 2021 and Reuters later reported that she had told her colleagues at Neuralink that they had conceived the children through in vitro fertilization and were not romantically involved. Musk has nine known surviving children.

Little was reported about Musk’s relationship with Zilis, who joined Musk’s relationship Brain chip company Neuralink According to her LinkedIn profile, she served as Director of Operations and Special Projects in 2017. She was also a consultant and later a board member at OpenAI from 2016 until March, when she stepped down from the board of the AI ​​company. The information was initially reported.

Isaacson said the photo was taken when Musk invited him to a meeting in Austin, Texas for an interview at Zilis’s home.

“Back in March, Musk texted me, ‘There are a couple of important things I’d like to talk to you about. It can only be done in person,'” Isaacson wrote of Musk in an excerpt from his biography published in TIME Magazine. “He said we should leave our phones inside while we sat outside because, he said, someone could use them to monitor our conversations. But later he agreed that I could use what he said in my book on AI.”

The biographer said Musk guided him and Zilis through his concerns about AI, including that AI’s rapid development is on a collision course with a “flattening out” in human intelligence, which Musk attributed to lower human birth rates.

“For a moment I was struck by the strangeness of the scene,” Isaacson wrote of the encounter. “We sat on a suburban patio by a quiet backyard swimming pool on a sunny spring day while two beaming twins learned to walk, while Musk somberly contemplated the opportunity to establish a sustainable human colony on Mars in front of an AI.” The apocalypse destroyed the earthly civilization.

Ultimately, Isaacson said the conversation was the beginning Musk’s newest venture x.AI, which he officially unveiled later in July. The billionaire said the company’s goal is to “discover the true nature of the universe.” It is expected to compete with other AI powerhouses like OpenAI and Google.

Read the full excerpt on TIME’s website.

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