Artificial tutors are technological solutions that mimic teachers through chat-bots, even using synthetic figures. In some schools that have already marginalized lecturers through video in distance learning and on-demand courses, these systems will be adopted to replace video, using avatars that simulate real professors. Virtual representations of teachers will take hold in the world of online universities or for corporate training, which currently rely on videos and LMS or Learning Management Systems.
But for education, this would not really be an evolution; rather, it will lead to the end of schooling as we think of it as we know it, a classroom group experience with the teacher, who in this projection into the future is replaced by technology, which is used by the individual isolated from others.
The risk of the “humanization of technology” denounced by the Vatican is seen to be realized here in a dramatic way.
If one wants, as one must, to think about a school of tomorrow, rather than suppressing the human component in the educational figures of reference, it will be preferable to think of chatbots as assistants to the teacher, who can support him or her in specific tasks, such as for learning professional micro-languages.
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