ABSTRACT
All universities are capitalist universities, whether in the market, state, or hybrid form, excepting those that are explicitly anti-capitalist. The capitalist university is little different from other commercial, or industrial, entities in terms of its focus on profit or surplus. The social forms of capitalism – including value, the commodity, and abstract labour – are central to an analysis of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the capitalist university and a negative critique of capitalism. Value critique and the New Reading of Marx show how AI has similarities to other capitalist technologies. These theorisations, and critiques, must be associated with other Marxist concepts (particularly class struggle) to avoid determinism. Using these theorisations AI can be conceptualised, not just in terms of its relation to academic labour, but to university commodities, time, and the future of the university.
