Artificial Intelligence in the Capitalist University Academic Labour, Commodification, and Value

• Main Author: Preston, John
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2021; Knowledge Unlatched GmbH; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism
• Subjects: Abstract Labour; Academic Labour; Ai Research; Artificial Intelligence; Artificial intelligence-Economic aspects; Artificial intelligence-Educational applications; Capitalism and education; Capitalist Universities; Commodity Stock; Competence Based Education; Computer science; Computing and Information Technology; Contemporary Society; Digital Manufacturing; Disaster Capitalism; Education; Education, Higher; Education, Higher-Effect of technological innovations on; Educational Commodities; Existential Threat; Far-left political ideologies and movements; Future Communist Society; General Intellect; Grenfell Tower Fire; HAL; Higher; Higher Education; Higher education, tertiary education; Labour Power; Marxism & Communism; Marxist criticism; Moral and social purpose of education; Narrow Ai; OOO; Philosophy; Philosophy and Religion; Philosophy and theory of education; Philosophy of Education; Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects; Political ideologies and movements; Politics and government; QS Ranking; QS World University Ranking; Real Abstraction; Real Subsumption; Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy; Social and political philosophy; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology of Education; Teaching of a specific subject; Technology in Education; Topics in philosophy; UK Ref; Virtual Production Line; Narrow Ai; Abstract Labour; Digital Manufacturing; Virtual Production Line; Disaster Capitalism; Capitalist Universities; Contemporary Society; Commodity Stock; QS Ranking; Labour Power; General Intellect; UK Ref; Educational Commodities; Future Communist Society; Real Abstraction; Higher Education; Grenfell Tower Fire; AI; Existential Threat; Competence Based Education; OOO; Real Subsumption; Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy; HAL; Virtual University; QS World University Ranking; Ai Research; Academic Labour
• ISBN: 9780367533779; 1032123621; 0367533774; 9781032123622; 1000471497; 9781000471496; 9781003081654; 1000471500; 9781000471502; 1003081657
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003081654

Using Marxist critique, this book explores manifestations of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Higher Education and demonstrates how it contributes to the functioning and existence of the capitalist university. Challenging the idea that AI is a break from previous capitalist technologies, the book offers nuanced examination of the impacts of AI on the control and regulation of academic work and labour, on digital learning and remote teaching, and on the value of learning and knowledge. Applying a Marxist perspective, Preston argues that commodity fetishism, surveillance, and increasing productivity ushered in by the growth of AI, further alienates and exploits academic labour and commodifies learning and research. The text puts forward a solid theoretical framework and methodology for thinking about AI to inform critical and revolutionary pedagogies. Offering an impactful and timely analysis, this book provides a critical engagement and application of key Marxist concepts in the study of AI’s role in Higher Education. It will be of interest to those working or researching in Higher Education.