From Forbes: A dirty little secret in higher education is that professors are not trained in how to teach... AI professors, in many ways, will be the best versions of the best professors students can have. AI professors will be realistic avatars that go far beyond the simple tutor model based on large language models, and will likely be here before anyone sees it coming. AI professors will: be available 24 hours, 7 days a week; have an exceedingly large bank of knowledge and experience that they can draw from to illustrate concepts; be complex responders to students’ learning styles and neurodivergence thereby providing truly personalized education with evidenced-based effective pedagogy; have the ability to assess and bring students along on any topic about which students desire to learn, thereby increasing access; teach content areas as well as durable skills such as critical thinking; and have updates in real time that fit the expectations and needs of the current workforce.
A reasonable concern that has been raised is how to prevent AI professors from hallucinating or providing inaccurate information. One mechanism to guard against this is to ensure that the course and teaching that occur are within a closed system of content and have oversight by human professors. At the same time, it should be acknowledged that human professors are not immune to hallucinating or making up answers to questions. They just do it without oversight. Human professors, on the other hand, will be able to serve students in a more personalized and interpersonal manner than is currently available. Instead of one to three-hour lectures a week for a class with upwards of hundreds of students (hardly personal), they will meet with smaller groups of students (say 20) multiple times a week, where they will get to know and develop meaningful relationships with many students (once university structures permit this). The responsibilities will include building relationships with students, facilitating the building of community among students, helping students network with other students and people in industries and careers in which students are interested...
Full story at https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasladany/2025/10/03/meet-the-ai-professor-coming-to-a-higher-education-campus-near-you/.
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