Former OpenAI board member says Elon Musk offered her sperm donations

Former OpenAI board member says Elon Musk offered her sperm donationsJust nowShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleLily Jamali,North America Technology correspondentandKali Hays,Technology reporterBloomberg via Getty ImagesShivon Zilis arrives at the trial in Oakland, California on 6 MayA former OpenAI board member has explained how her unconventional personal relationship with Elon Musk evolved into having four of his children.Shivon Zilis testified in a federal courtroom in Oakland, California for hours on Wednesday as part of Musk's lawsuit trying to reverse OpenAI's change to a for-profit company.The focus of Zilis's appearance was her direct involvement in early talks with Musk around the company becoming a for-profit, but also how she worked for and became involved with Musk as she advised OpenAI."I still really wanted to be a mum and Elon made the offer around that time and I accepted," she said, explaining Musk had offered to donate sperm."[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 said.AFP via Getty ImagesZilis and Musk attended the wedding of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino at Mar-a-Lago in FebruaryZilis has worked as a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley for over 15 years and held executive positions at Musk's car company, Tesla, and his neurotechnology firm Neuralink. She joined OpenAI as a baord member in 2016, not long after it was founded, a position through which she said on Wednesday is how she first met Musk.Given Zilis's role across Musk's companies and OpenAI, she is an important witness in the trial. OpenAI lawyers have suggested that she funnelled information about OpenAI to Musk after he in 2018 left the AI company, which he co-founded and made early donations to.Zilis said she had a "one-off" romance with Musk about a decade ago but was not romantically involved with Musk around...