"Doing my best to help the underpopulation
crisis," tweeted the billionaire tech entrepreneur, who has fathered 10
children.
"A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger
civilisation faces by far," Musk added.
He posted another tweet that read: "I hope you have big
families and congrats to those who already do!"
The comments came a day after online outlet Insider reported
that Musk had twins with 36-year-old Canadian Shivon Zilis, an executive at
Neuralink, Musk's brain-implant maker.
She has also worked at other Musk companies including OpenAI
and electric car manufacturer Tesla, Insider said.
In April, Zilis and Musk filed a petition with a Texas court
for the children to "have their father's last name and contain their
mother's last name as part of their middle name," Insider reported,
referring to court documents obtained by the publication.
The petition was granted in May, the site said.
The babies, which Insider says were born in November,
arrived just weeks before Musk, 51, and music artist Grimes had their second
child via surrogate.
They welcomed a baby girl named Exa Dark Sideræl Musk --
although the parents will mostly call her Y.
In total, the chief of Tesla and SpaceX has fathered 10
children, one of whom died shortly after birth.
In May, Musk tweeted a graphic from the Wall Street Journal
showing that the average number of babies a US woman has in her lifetime fell
from more than 3.5 in 1960 to a little over 1.5 in 2021.
He noted that it was below the 2.1 level that is needed for
a generation to replace itself.
"USA birth rate has been below min sustainable levels
for ~50 years," Musk wrote alongside.
Last month, one of his children who recently turned 18 filed
a petition in a California court to change her name and gender identity to
female.
She cited "the fact that I no longer live with or wish
to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form" as one of
the reasons for the name change, according to the court document.
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