Elon Musk became father of twins last year, say reports

Elon Musk’s latest tweets appear to confirm reports he had twins in late 2021 with Shivon Zilis – an executive at his technology company Neuralink.

The Tesla chief executive recently had a second child with on-off partner and electronic artist, Grimes.

Reports on Wednesday claimed Mr Musk had twins with 36-year-old Ms Zilis in November 2021.

Mr Musk responded by tweeting on Thursday that he was “doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis”.

He added that “a collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilisation faces by far”, echoing his previous statements and vocal concerns about a population crisis.

The twins born to Mr Musk and Ms Zilis would be his second set, having previously fathered twins and triplets with former wife and Canadian author Justine Wilson.

He has gone on to have two children, X Æ A-Xii and Exa Dark Sideræl, with Grimes in the last two years.

The tech giant and business magnate has previously claimed that a declining birth rate combined with the rise of artificial intelligence could result in “not enough people” being in the world.

“Far too many people are under the illusion that Earth is overpopulated, even though birth rate trends are so obviously headed to population collapse,” Mr Musk said in a reply to his tweet.