Morgan Simpson

London, UK

Bio

Updated 03/22/26

Morgan Simpson is an AI governance researcher and Research Manager at Pivotal Research, a London-based organization running mentored AI safety and governance research fellowships. Based in London, Simpson has approximately three years of experience in AI governance research and has co-authored multiple policy papers through the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, including work on voluntary industry initiatives in frontier AI governance, what should be internationalised in AI governance, model access governance, and UK AI security liability. Simpson has received funding from the AI Risk Mitigation Fund, including a grant to produce two white papers on AI safety infrastructure and legal instruments for containing technical knowledge, produced in collaboration with UCLA Professor Robert Trager. Simpson also published a widely-read guide on research management pitfalls on the EA Forum in January 2025.