Cody Rushing
Bio
Cody Rushing is a Member of Technical Staff at Redwood Research, where he works on AI control, model organisms, scheming and deception, and AI security. He completed his Bachelor's in Computer Science from UT Austin in Fall 2024 and attended the MATS Summer 2024 program under mentor Buck Shlegeris, later receiving a stipend extension to continue his AI Control research. He now also serves as a MATS mentor for the Redwood Research stream. His prior research includes mechanistic interpretability work under Neel Nanda and value alignment research with Brad Knox. He is a co-author of several papers including "Ctrl-Z: Controlling AI Agents via Resampling," "Factor(T,U): Factored Cognition Strengthens Monitoring of Untrusted AI," and "Basic Legibility Protocols Improve Trusted Monitoring." He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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- Personal Website
- https://starship006.github.io/
- Twitter / X
- LessWrong
- cody-rushing
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from Long-Term Future Fund
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- Last Updated
- Mar 22, 2026, 3:00 PM UTC
- Created
- Mar 20, 2026, 2:49 AM UTC