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Week 3: AI and Mental Health/Wellness - Some nuance and discomfort
Weekly Log 3: English 3016 “Writing in the Age of AI”
Chris Ostro
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Educator in the Denver area. Former classicist and HS teacher, current university instructor, course designer, and writing consultant. Avid gamer, traveler, fantasy football player, and city biker. Fledgling writer and gardener.
![A screenshot from an academic paper about the impact of AI hype that is highlighted. It reads:
We see this dynamic at play in OpenAI's shifting stance and policies as they have become more closely tied to Microsoft, a choice they made admittedly to access scarce computational resources. This is illustrated by the 2024 change to their acceptable use policy, which significantly softened the proscription against using their products for "military and warfare"; this change unlocked new revenue streams [112], connected OpenAI's large scale AI to Microsoft's existing US military partnerships [135], and later pushed AI to direct battlefield application via a partnership with the defense-tech company Anduril [85]. The public did not have a say in this determi-nation, nor, we assume, did the global stakeholders whose interests may not be safeguarded by the militaries that OpenAl chooses to provide services to. And yet, the concentrated private industry power over Al creates a small, and financially incentivized segment of AI decision makers. We should consider how such concentrated power with agency over centralized Al could shape society under more authoritarian conditions.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bep462xlz63fm6a3lnmtgteb/bafkreia3mqazleigcyaejrcp7wvmj3ihmn2w2zccp2wufux736okp4cfha)
