Teachers to be replaced by AI robots? I don't think so

Greg Cudmore

By Greg Cudmore
Community contribution / September 19, 2017

Sir Anthony Seldon, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham, at a recent British Science Festival, predicted an end to traditional teaching roles within the next ten years with teachers replaced by artificially intelligent robots. Teachers, essentially, would become classroom assistants, servants of the robots.

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Greg Cudmore is a retired teacher with 45 years experience working in Australian Schools. He recently published 'Even More Elephants in our Classrooms (2026) ' (amazon.com), the third in his 'Elephants in the Classroom' trilogy, which critiques contemporary Australian education, a primer for aspiring and practising teachers and for those, like Mark Twain, who never let schooling interfere with their education.

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