person
Shivon Zilis
Neuralink director; OpenAI board alumna
Canadian technology executive who serves on the Neuralink leadership team. Former OpenAI board observer (2016–2019) and long-time Musk collaborator on AI safety framings.
current Director of Operations and Special Projects, Neuralink
Strategy positions
Existential primacyendorses
Extinction/disempowerment risk overrides ordinary cost-benefitPublicly argues AI is the most consequential technology humanity creates and that getting it right is an existential-relevance question.
“AI's going to be one of the fundamentally transformative technologies humanity creates, if not the most. We just need to make sure, from a humanity perspective, this goes well.”
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.