Digital Transformation and Internationalization in Higher Education: A Sociological Study of Artificial Intelligence at Mohamed I University, Morocco

The topic of digital technology is considered a wide and primary motivator of cultural capital development in the academic field. The tangible progress of digital technology as an open social framework that supports students’ knowledge development and facilitates their integration into the scientific system. This chapter aims to study the future dimensions in the scientific field in the light of the rapid development of digital technology, and to understand the extent of artificial intelligence’s contribution to the production and reproduction of cultural capital and scientific authority in the scientific field, using a qualitative methodology and the techniques of observation and structured interview with students from Mohammed I University in Oujda, Morocco. Through this sociological study, it has been concluded that artificial intelligence enhances the cultural capital of students in the scientific field, and that the possibility of a new balance of scientific authority in the scientific field due to artificial intelligence is very low.