The University of the Future as an Artificial Society in the Era of Cognitive Symbiosis between Human and Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

The article is devoted to the philosophical reflection on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education through the analysis of three paradigms: instrumental-pragmatic, critical-sociological, as well as actor-network and posthumanist. The first paradigm leaves AI as a passive object, the second endows it with abstract force, and the third recognizes the relational nature of agency. Through Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory and Karen Barad's posthumanist framework, it is substantiated that AI acts not as an external tool or threat, but as one of the actants in a heterogeneous network, reassembling educational practices and the subjectivity of students and teachers through intra-action. It is concluded that the university of the future is forming as an artificial society, where human and algorithmic intelligence are ontologically inseparable. Its task becomes not the prohibition of this symbiosis, but the creation of policies that prevent new forms of vulnerability and preserve human reflection and responsibility. It is shown that the competence of a graduate is measured by the ability to build productive interaction with algorithmic actants, transforming the effects of a sociotechnical hybrid into meaningful human action.