Andrea Matwyshyn

@andreamm
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Professor, law and engineering, Penn State; Founding Director, PILOT lab & @manglonalab
My labshttps://www.pilotlab.org and https://manglonalab.org
Websitehttps://www.andreamm.com
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Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_M._Matwyshyn

Interested in what Hannah Arendt would have thought of our present moment in tech? She told us.

New from me - Exploit Machina https://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/archives/59/3/exploit-machina

Exploit Machina | UC Davis Law Review

My paper from the symposium is called The Internet of Latour's Things; it will be out later this year in Penn Carey Law's Journal of Law and Innovation.
Are you in Philadelphia next Friday and would enjoy listening to my thoughts on RoboCop, Bruno Latour, the Internet of Bodies, AI,, and next generation legal baselines for corporate governance (and vulnerability disclosure)? If so, this symposium may be for you. https://www.law.upenn.edu/calendar/event/72863-journal-of-law-innovation-annual-symposium
Sometimes squirrels jump out and find you when you least expect it... sometimes even in the middle of an ML talk.
Still waiting for a service capable of generating infographics that correctly spell words *as I have typed them* in the instruction. We are not there yet.
On the Internet, everyone knows you're a dog.

My adventures in vibe coding continue. This time I was attempting to build a simple text to voice app with manual pronunciation correction, extra pausing, and downloadable .WAV file generation. I have ended up in the same place as I did six month ago with a cite generator project: debugging by hand and with only one potentially usable app, despite trying multiple platforms.

Here's the humor winner for the best Console of the night. ....Same, Console, same.

Part of why I started looking at the intersection of infosec and antitrust/competition law - the nat sec implications.

"In 2015, the insurer, Wright USA, had been quietly purchased by Fosun Group, a private company believed to have very close connections with China's leadership...Wright USA was privy to the personal details of many of America's top secret service agents and intelligence officials." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g311jn1m9o

A Chinese firm bought an insurer for CIA agents - part of Beijing's trillion dollar spending spree

When an insurer for FBI and CIA agents was sold to a Chinese entity, it led the US to tighten investment laws.

"U.S. power demand is now rising for the first time in two decades on technologies including artificial intelligence. Nuclear energy, which is virtually carbon-free, has become an option for technology companies with uninterrupted power needs and climate pledges. Critics point out that the U.S. has failed to find permanent storage for radioactive waste." https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/18/business/three-mile-island-restart-trump
Trump administration lends $1 billion to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor

The Trump administration said on Tuesday it has loaned Constellation Energy Corp CEG.O $1 billion to restart its nuclear reactor at a Pennsylvania plant formerly known as Three Mile Island.

CNN
Completely Misunderstanding Those Authors by Ellis Rosen

Completely Misunderstanding Those Authors by Ellis Rosen

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