ABSTRACT
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has come to stand for many different things in contemporary society. This includes sets of methods such as ML (Machine Learning) and technologies, such as digital assistants. AI is also central to theories of cyborgs, robots, and post-humanism and transhumanism. AI is both an over-burdened and a contested concept. To ground AI in a historical and material context, it must be regarded as a capitalist technology or an organisational form. This applies to different theorisations of ML and AI, including AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) and speculation on ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence). Concerns about whether AI is biased, or whether it leads to unfair outcomes in Higher Education, must be situated within this theorisation of AI. However, the extent to which AI is biased is not central to a Marxist analysis of AI in the capitalist university.
