As a PhD candidate myself, I have to say this is an amazing idea. Meet with your local university's CompSci department and they will have many good uses for the

As a PhD candidate myself, I have to say this is an amazing idea. Meet with your local university's CompSci department and they will have many good uses for them. I don't need them, I have actually accrued a large collection of credits myself for the program. But another university may not be as fortunate, so this can be a huge help and be the difference in many research projects being completed or not. Overall, research benefits everybody, so this is a better use of the credits than using it to middle-finger Bezos that many comments are suggesting. Especially because credits are more beneficial and needed than ever before right now. I can tell you from being in academia that they are pushing almost all research projects to find AI/ML angles on everything we do. Thats the type of research in demand right now by the major journals and publications so all the universities are pushing for this twist on all current research projects to improve the likelihood of being published. And as you know, doing anything with AI/ML can 10x - 100x the cost. So credits are more valued right now than ever before.