• Ethics of Technology (Autonomous Technical Systems; Artificial Intelligence)
• Business Ethics
• Philosophy of science (systems theory)
• Risk Management

• Since Feb. 2023: Research Associate at the Institute for Social Ethics at the Ethics Center of the University of Zurich.
• 2021: Submission of dissertation thesis on intelligence in AI to the Faculty of Philosophy at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
• 2019-2020: Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Liechtenstein
• 2018-2019: Postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Entrepreneurial Risk at ETH Zurich
• 2017: Submission of dissertation thesis on risk management in banking and complex financial systems to the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of St. Gallen (HSG)
• 2013-2017: Doctoral Fellow of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
• 2007-2013: Studies (BA, MA) of Business Administration/Economics and Philosophy in Mannheim, Constance, Paris and at the London School of Economics.

Books

• Hoffmann, Christian Hugo. 2022. The Quest for a Universal Theory of Intelligence. The Mind, the Machine, and Singularity Hypotheses. Berlin: De Gruyter.
• Hoffmann, Christian Hugo. 2017. Assessing Risk Assessment: Towards Alternative Risk Models for Complex Financial Systems. Berlin: Springer.

Articles

• Technological brave new world? Eschatological narratives on digitalization and their flaws, in Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness, 9: 1–17.
• Der Hauptsatz in der Ars conjectandi: Interpretationen von Bernoullis Beiträgen zu den Anfängen der mathematischen Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie, in Siegener Beiträge zur Geschichte und Philosophie der Mathematik, 16: 75–96.
• Human Intelligence and Exceptionalism Revisited by a Philosopher. 100 years after “Intelligence and its measurement”, inJournal of Consciousness Studies, 29: 56–79.
• Der Gödelsche Unvollständigkeitssatz und seine philosophischen Implikationen für die Betrachtung von Geist und Künstlicher Intelligenz, in Salzburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie, 67: 167–188.
• Rationality applied: Resolving the Two Envelopes Problem, in Theory and Decision. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11238-022-09906-8
• Intelligence in light of perspectivalism and AI responsibilization, in Journal of Responsible Technology, 12: 100047. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrt.2022.100047
• Technology assessments and effective risk management. A plea for more reflection and rationality, in International Journal of Technoethics, 13. Available at:https://www.igi-global.com/article/technology-assessments-and-effective-risk-management/306639
• Nietzschean perspectives on intelligence: In need of more plurality for making sense of intelligence, in Journal of Artificial Intelligence Humanities, 10: 9–52. Available at: https://doi.org/10.46397/JAIH.10.1
• Is AI intelligent? An assessment of Artificial Intelligence, 70 years after Turing, in Technology in Society, 68: 101893. Available at: https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0160-791X(22)00034-3
• A Philosophical View on Singularity and Strong AI, in AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01327-5
• Die Verursachung der Vergangenheit: zur Debatte um die Möglichkeit rückwirkender Kausalität, in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 69: 950–982.
• Infini-Rien: Ist Pascals Wettargument formallogisch ungültig?, in Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/agph-2020-0104/html
• & Hahn, B. 2020. Decentered ethics in the machine era and guidance for AI regulation, in AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication, 35: 635–644.