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Newton Cheng

Anthropic researcher on the Frontier Red Team focused on cyber misuse evaluation and threat modeling; previously a physics PhD student at UC Berkeley and now also mentors in the MATS program.

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Profile completeness66%
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CountryUnknown
Last reviewedMar 13, 2026
Review outcomeUpdated
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updated Unknown location 4 public sources

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Added UC Berkeley profile, MATS/OpenReview/X links, avatar, and bio.

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website UC Berkeley profile other MATS mentor profile other OpenReview profile x X profile

Organizations

core Anthropic

Reports

Alignment and Safety Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training

Official and primary sources

https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/newton.html Official source · homepage

Supporting sources

https://openreview.net/profile?id=~Newton_Cheng1 Supporting source · other https://www.matsprogram.org/mentor/cheng Supporting source · other https://x.com/newton_cheng Supporting source · social

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