Mia Hoffmann is a Non-Resident Research Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). She was a Research Fellow at CSET from November 2022 to October 2025, where she worked on AI governance. Her research spanned AI incident and harm analysis, EU and global AI policy, AI innovation, and risk management. Prior to joining CSET she worked at the European Commission and Bruegel, an economic policy think tank based in Brussels. In this role, she studied the drivers and barriers of AI adoption by firms, and the labor market implications of emerging technology. Mia holds a BSc in International Economics from the University of Tuebingen in Germany, and a MSc in Economics from Lund University in Sweden.
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Harmonizing AI Guidance: Distilling Voluntary Standards and Best Practices into a Unified Framework
September 2025Organizations looking to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) systems face the challenge of deciphering a myriad of voluntary standards and best practices—requiring time, resources, and expertise that many cannot afford. To address this problem, this report… Read More
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