Elon Musk opens up about fathering twins with Shivon Zilis

Elon Musk spoke up about reports of him fathering twins with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis.

In a post on Twitter, the Tesla CEO alluded to the news as he spoke about the "underpopulaition crisis".

"Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis. A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far," he wrote.

Adding in follow-up tweets, Elon wrote, "Mark my words, they are sadly true" and "I hope you have big families and congrats to those who already do!"

The news emerged after they petitioned the court to modify the names of their twin children so that they would "have their father's last name and contain their mother's last name as part of their middle name".

According to her LinkedIn page it stated that she's "all about machine intelligence for good," and spent five years at the very company, Neuralink, which Musk co-founded.

Musk is currently the co-CEO of Neuralink, and Zilis serves as the director of operations and special projects for the company.