Elon Musk, Shivon Zilis and their twins. Photo: X Water Isaacson

According to NY Post, the photo of four people including Elon Musk, his subordinate Shivon Zilis and their two 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren was taken by veteran journalist Walter Isaacson – author of a biography about Musk about to hit shelves on September 12.

In the photo, Musk sat cross-legged on the sofa, placing one of the twins (then 16 months old) sitting on his lap. According to Insider, the other 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦 is being held by Zilis (37 years old), who sits next to Musk. The photo was taken at Zilis’ home in Austin, Texas and was posted by Isaacson on X (Twitter’s new name) on September 6.

Another image also shared by Isaacson shows one of the American billionaire’s twin 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren standing next to a robot. The author of a biography of Elon Musk said the Tesla founder wanted to meet him at Zilis’ house last March for a “face-to-face conversation”.

Elon Musk lets his twins play with robots. Photo: X Water Isaacson

“He told us we should leave our phones in the house when we sit outside and talk because Musk said people could use them to eavesdrop on our conversations. But then he agreed I could use them.” “use what is said about AI in my book”, an excerpt of the book was published by Time magazine.

“For a moment, I was stunned by the strange scene before my eyes. We were sitting in the backyard of our suburban house, next to a quiet swimming pool on a sunny spring day. The twins’ eyes were bright as stars. of Musk was learning to walk when the billionaire sadly predicted the opportunity to build a base on Mars for humans before AI destroys civilization, bringing the Earth into apocalypse,” Isaacson continued.

Shivon Zilis, who gave 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 to twins for Elon Musk in 2021. Photo: Instagram Shivon Zilis

Zilis is a Canadian-𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 venture capitalist. She gave 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 to the 8th and 9th 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren for Elon Musk in November 2021. The names of the two 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren have not been made public yet. The twins are believed to have been 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 through in vitro fertilization and were 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 just a few weeks before Musk welcomed his second 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 with singer Grimes.

According to Reuters, Zilis told colleagues that she and her 52-year-old boss had never had 𝓈ℯ𝓍 or had a relationship of any kind. Zilis became acquainted with Musk in 2016, while working as a consultant for OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Musk hired Zilis, who is considered an expert in the field of artificial intelligence, to work on Tesla’s autopilot technology in 2017. She took over the American billionaire’s neural technology company Neuralink in 2020.