Former OpenAI board member says Elon Musk offered her sperm donations
Shivon Zilis testified on Wednesday in a federal courtroom in Oakland, California, explaining that Elon Musk in 2020 had offered to donate sperm. She said, "He was encouraging everyone around him at that time to have kids, and he'd noticed I did not. He offered to make a donation." Zilis explained she had been struggling with certain health issues, which had changed her initial plans to follow a more traditional personal path of getting married and having children with a romantic partner.
Zilis joined OpenAI as an advisor in 2016, met Musk through that position, and served as a director at OpenAI from 2020 to 2023. She had a "one-off" romance with Musk about a decade ago but was not romantically involved with Musk in 2020. Zilis did not disclose to OpenAI's chief executive, Sam Altman, that the twins she gave birth to in 2021 were fathered by Musk until 2022, when she learned a Business Insider report on Musk's paternity of the children was imminent. Musk is now an active participant in the lives of his now four children with Zilis, spending a few hours a week together as a family.
Zilis left the board in March 2023 as Musk was launching xAI. Lawyers for OpenAI seized on several examples of discussions about changing the AI company's corporate structure, with emails from Zilis showing that Musk wanted to move away from being a pure non-profit as early as 2017.
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A former OpenAI board member's relationship with Elon Musk- involving his companies and four children- has come to light in court. Her testimony hints at the complex dynamics between personal relationships and corporate interests.
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