Harvard's Greta Tuckute on what brain-LLM alignment does—and doesn't—tell us
GretaTuckute · x · 2026-09-18
In a new WiAIR podcast episode, Greta Tuckute (Kempner Institute, Harvard) talks with Jekaterina Novikova about what brain-LLM alignment research does and does not reveal, covering work with Martin Schrimpf, Ev Fedorenko and others on language, LLMs and memory. A telling detail: asked to keep only one label among neuroscience, cognitive science and AI, she drops AI first—suggesting the field is at root closer to brain and cognitive science.
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