Musk and Zilis did not respond to a request for comment.
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Zilis is a rising star in Musk’s empire. She was born in Markham, Ontario. In 2008, she received a BA in Economics and Philosophy from Yale, where she also played as a goalkeeper for the women’s hockey team. She has been practicing sports all her life, and on social media you could see her surfing, ziplining and ice climbing.
After starting her career at IBM, she joined the Bloomberg Beta venture capital fund, where she led investments in data processing and machine learning. In 2015, it was included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the venture capital category.
Zilis met Musk while working at OpenAI, the non-profit artificial intelligence research and implementation organization Musk founded in 2015. He is the youngest member of the OpenAI board. In 2017, Zilis joined Tesla, where she was engaged in research on artificial intelligence and its implementation. He is currently director of operations and special projects at Neuralink, of which Musk is co-managing director. She was recently cited as one of the people Musk could engage to lead Twitter after his acquisition of the platform.
While at Neuralink, the company conducted surgical experiments using Bluetooth chips on monkeys and pigs, and allowed the nine-year-old macaque to play Pong directly using his brain. Musk suggested that human trials could start by the end of 2022.
Zilis lived in San Francisco, and in August, three months before the twins were born, she bought a home in Austin. The Zillow real estate portal estimates the house is worth over $ 4 million. Musk says his most important place to live is a modular house worth 50,000. hole. in Boca Chica, near the SpaceX facility in South Texas, but the court papers Musk and Zilis gave the same address – a million-dollar house in Austin. With the opening of Gigafactory, Tesla on the outskirts of Musk has been spending more time in Austin lately.
Zilis shares many of Musk’s passions, such as space travel, transportation and, above all, artificial intelligence. They seem to have a similar sense of humor. Both posted jokes on Twitter about artificial intelligence and Musk’s favorite cryptocurrency, dogecoin.
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She was a staunch defender of Musk when he was heavily criticized. In 2020, when California State Assembly member Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher tweeted “F * ck Elon Musk” commenting on Tesla’s flight from California from pandemic restraint, Zilis replied: “It makes me sad. Nobody is perfect, but never I have never met anyone who has gone through more, fighting for a great future for mankind, and has done so tirelessly for decades. Everyone is entitled to his opinion, but there is no one I can respect and admire more. “
In August, she sent Musk a photo of SpaceX technicians and engineers connecting Starship with the Super Heavy booster and wrote: “Human history and future in one photo.”
Musk is a supporter of many children
Musk says he built his empire to protect humanity from what it sees as its greatest threats, namely the climate crisis, the AI revolt, and more recently depopulation.
In 2017, he began to sound the alarm in light of the declining birth rate. He then wrote on Twitter: “The world’s population is headed for destruction faster and faster, but few seem to notice or care about it.”
He returned to the topic in August 2019 during a debate with Jacek Ma, president of the Alibaba Group, at the World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Shanghai.
– The biggest problem in 20 years will be depopulation. Not an explosion. Collapse, Musk said.
Since the beginning of 2022, the magnate has tweeted several times about population-related issues. On May 24, he published a graphic from The Wall Street Journal illustrating the sharp decline in fertility in the United States.
“Contrary to what many think, the richer someone is, the fewer children they have. I am the rare exception,” wrote Musk. He returned to this thread several times over the next month. On June 14 he added, “I mean, I’m doing my job haha.”
On June 17, Musk tweeted the opening scene of Mike Judge’s 2006 comedy “Idiocracy,” depicting a world where highly intelligent people refuse to reproduce, while those with low IQ continue to form large families.
“When I ask my friends why they don’t have children yet (very few do), they respond exactly as in the movie,” he wrote.
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Experts are divided over the demographic future. After years of fear of overpopulating the planet and continuing to deplete scarce resources, some studies are starting to suggest that Earth’s population may peak and then begin to decline faster than expected. The average number of children a woman has to bear in her lifetime for one generation to replace another is 2.1. In 2020, the Journal noted, the total fertility rate in the United States fell to 1.64, although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that in 2021 the number of US births increased for the first time in seven years.
Part of Musk’s concern about the decline in birth rates seems to stem from the belief that there will be insufficient people to populate Mars.
The founder of Tesla is an advocate of transforming humans into a species inhabiting many planets. SpaceX wants to send humans to Mars with the Starship project by 2029. As he wrote in a 2017 article in the scientific journal New Space, he sees the presence of humans on the red planet as a safeguard against extinction.
Responding to a tweet in 2021 praising him for having a large family, he wrote: “I’m trying to set a good example! Population decline is a much bigger problem than people realize, and it’s only about Earth. Mars needs people badly.” because its population is now zero. “
Difficult relationships of Elon Musk
Musk’s first wife, writer Justine Musk, told Musk’s biographer Ashlee Vance that he “wanted to get married and have children right from the start.” In 2002, the couple gave birth to their first child, Nevada Alexander Musk, who died just 10 weeks old. After the child’s death, the couple decided to undergo IVF. In 2004, Justine gave birth to twins Vivian and Griffin, and in 2006 to triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian.
In June of this year, Vivian obtained approval to legally change her name and gender. In her application, she wrote that she no longer wanted to be associated with her biological father in any way.
Following his divorce in 2008, Musk married, divorced, and then remarried to actress Talulah Riley, with whom he had no children. In 2018 he was associated with Grimes. In 2020, she gave birth to their first child, X Æ A-Xii Musk. The couple had to change their son’s name from X Æ A-12 to comply with California law. In March, the existence of their second child, Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, was revealed. Exa then started crying during an interview with Grimes with a journalist from “Vanity Fair”.
In an interview, Grimes described the complicated nature of her relationship with Musk.
“There is no word for it,” Vanity Fair said. –I would probably describe him as my boyfriend, but we are very fluid. We live in separate houses. We are best friends. We see each other all the time … We just have our own affairs and I don’t expect other people to understand, she added.
She also talked about plans to have more children with Musk.
“We always wanted at least three or four,” she confided.
The day the article was published, she tweeted: “Me and E broke up again haha but he is my best friend and love of my life and my life and art are now forever devoted to the Mission.”
She later defined the Mission as balanced energy, making humanity a multi-planet species and preserving consciousness.
Musk and Amber Heard – who dated for about a year in 2016 – were able to freeze the embryos together. During the high-profile libel trial of Heard and Johnny Depp this spring, Heard’s sister boss Jennifer Howell testified that she had heard secondhand from Heard’s mother, Paige Parsons, that Heard was fighting a legal battle with him for the rights of embryos they created together.
“He wanted to destroy them, and Amber tried to keep them to have a child,” she testified.
Although Musk speaks respectfully about paternity, he does not hide that his role in raising children is limited.
“There is not much I can do at the moment,” he told The New York Times about his relationship with baby X Æ A-Xii. – Grimes has a much bigger role than me right now. As the child gets older, my role will be greater. I think I just do what I did with the other kids. For example, if I go with Tesla to China, I’ll take the kids with me and go see the Great Wall, or we go by train from Beijing to Xian and see the Terracotta Warriors, ‘he added.
Last week, Musk took his four eldest sons to meet the Pope. After the children were discharged from the Mirman School in Los Angeles, he founded a specialist school for them, Ad Astra, attended by SpaceX employees with their children.
Last month, on Father’s Day, Musk tweeted: “I love all my children so much.”
Autor: Julia Black
Translated by Mateusz Albin
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