AIdeology: Unpacking the Ideology of Artificial Intelligence and Its Spaces

The argument advanced in this paper is that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not simply a technology, but also an ideology that is influencing the values, beliefs, and worldviews of many people. Furthermore, this paper contends that the ideology of AI, henceforth AIdeology , has a strong spatial dimension. Through a combination of Marxian philosophy and human geography, the paper develops a critical theory of AI as an ideology and makes three main contributions. First, it identifies and discusses the core components of AIdeology: the idea of AI as a force capable of achieving a condition of sustainability; the idea of posthuman societies populated by humanlike AIs; and the idea of AI making both human labour and capitalism obsolete. Second, it critically examines the spatiality of these ideas and how the production of space supports their diffusion. Third, it sheds light on the uneven socio‐environmental relations that AIdeology attempts to hide.