Get Tim Behrens on Dwarkesh Podcast

Tim Behrens is not only one of the leading theorists on cognitive maps, he is now Editor-in-Chief of eLife, where he is shaping how frontier neuroscience and AI research gets reviewed and released in 2025 and 2026. With eLife’s new publish‑review‑curate model driving open science debates, hearing Behrens explain what should be published and when matters for anyone trying to separate hype from real progress today.

His lab’s recent Cell paper showed grid-like codes for value in ventromedial prefrontal cortex, a concrete link between brain maps and decision making that AI world‑modelers are racing to emulate right now. He is also presenting new theory and data on how prefrontal cortex represents the future and planning, which could change how we build agents that plan rather than just predict.

As far as we can tell from the episode listings, Behrens has not been on the Dwarkesh Podcast before, so this would be a fresh, timely conversation for a show that has become a must‑listen for AI and science. If you care about how brain insights will steer AGI and how publishing norms decide what breakthroughs see daylight, support this nomination today.