This Feels Familiar – Co-Pilot and the Risk of the Renewing Contract

Like many academic institutions, my university has announced that we now have a contract with Microsoft Co-Pilot. Through our centralized webstore faculty and students can purchase individual licenses for it at the cost of just over $400/seat/year. (https://it.uic.edu/news-stories/ms-copilot-available-to-uic-staff/). As with most technological roll outs, this was a single announcement buried…