In the UK, where teacher recruitment and retention is becoming increasingly dire, schools have started experimenting with new and controversial technology – including AI-generated “deepfake” avatars and remote teaching staff. Local media outlets are tracking these as answers to the mass understaffing and overwork in the education sector and delving into the ethics and practicalities.
Emergence of the deepfake teacher
One of the most radical experiments underway is the use of AI to construct realistic digital avatars of real-life teachers. At the Great Schools Trust, for example, staff are trialling technology that creates video clones of themselves to teach . These “deepfake” teachers are mainly intended to help students state up on the curriculum if they have missed class for whatever reason. By deploying these avatars, schools hope they can provide students with reliable, high-quality instruction without further taxing the physical teacher’s time.
Advocates including Mr. Ierston maintain the technology is not replacing human teachers but freeing them from monotonous work.
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