Vincent Cheng (former)

Vincent Cheng

Former Research Contractor

Vincent worked on chain-of-thought monitoring and eval execution at METR. He also studies Math and CS at Cornell University, practices Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and enjoys going on side quests.

By Vincent Cheng

Frontier Risk Report (February to March 2026)

May 19, 2026

A pilot assessment of rogue deployment risk at frontier AI companies. Starting in February 2026, METR conducted a pilot exercise to assess misalignment risks from AI agents used inside frontier AI developers, with participation from Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI.

Early Results on Monitorability in QA Settings

October 6, 2025

Vincent Cheng, Thomas Kwa, and Neev Parikh share research on how AI agents can hide secondary task-solving from monitors, finding that harder tasks are more detectable and small models can learn to evade larger monitors.

Claude, GPT, and Gemini All Struggle to Evade Monitors

August 22, 2025

Vincent Cheng and Thomas Kwa replicate a Google DeepMind paper on chain-of-thought monitoring, showing evidence that monitoring works on other companies' models.

How Does Time Horizon Vary Across Domains?

July 14, 2025

We build on our time-horizon work and analyze 9 benchmarks for scientific reasoning, math, robotics, computer use, and self-driving in terms of time-horizon trends; we observe generally similar rates of improvement to the 7-month doubling time in our original time-horizon work.