Asa Cooper Stickland has been added to Turing Tree. His work examines whether AI safeguards can detect and prevent dangerous behavior. He co-created GPQA and contributed to ControlArena and Async Control.

He announced on X on 22 October 2026 that he had joined METR’s embedded monitoring assessment team. He previously worked at the UK AI Security Institute and as a postdoctoral researcher at New York University.