I think that I would like to have a robot as a teacher. While a machine would never be able to replace the human touch of a real teacher, I think that it would be able to adapt in a way that would replicate it close enough that I would be able to carry on in a classroom environment. AI is highly adaptive so if a bot would be able to meet the individual needs of every student then that would benefit everyone. A robot wouldn’t be able to get off topic, but would still be able to adapt to students’ emotional needs as it has every experience ever in its database (aka the internet). This includes the experiences of teenagers writing online. If an artificial intelligence is able to communicate with information from actual teenagers, it would be more relatable than an adult trying to relate to children. This might bring back the students’ natural drive to learn by making them interested in the lesson and engaged. Children biologically have a natural drive to learn and create new things (Vugt). However, the stereotype of children hating school is prominent in every medium. If schools are able to rewrite biology, what does that say about us as a society? Maybe this introduction of the future will bring things back to normal and help bring back the spark to learning. 

Artificial intelligence also doesn’t have the same restrictions as human teachers do. Due to robots not having feelings, they can never become impatient and can continue generating ways to explain concepts until children understand. This broadens the opportunities for students substantially! With subtle prompting, they can think for themselves and come up with unique answers instead of sitting in a room, regurgitating information beneath the harsh fluorescent lighting. Putting the needs of children first will no doubt benefit humanity as a whole. 

Vugt, Mark Van, Ph. D. “How Our Kids Learn Naturally: Educational lessons from the world of yesterday.” Psychology Today, July-Aug. 2017, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/naturally-selected/201707/how-our-kids-learn-naturally. Accessed 6 May 2026. 

Keiley Reed’s view: 

I would not like to have a robot teacher. Having human teachers not only means that the teachers will understand more things about their students but it means that they can be more lenient. Let’s say a student has gotten a question wrong only by rounding in, let’s say, math. A human teacher would show empathy and understanding and maybe let the student redo the question or something, but with a computer, wrong is wrong. Students’ grades would probably drop. And though with a robot teacher there wouldn’t be a need for substitutes, they also would be very strict and stuck to commands made by humans. With a human teacher students get more variety, with a robot teacher classes would be boring and stiff every day. With robot teachers there might only be one answer, but with humans if you say something close to correct you might just get half points, but with robots as I previously said, wrong is wrong and no half points would come.

Of course I did not do extensive research on this topic and of course not every robot would be the same, but having a robot teacher would not be the same as a human one. 20-40% of Americans do not trust AI so what is stopping them from being against robot teachers, which is practically the same thing.

According to a different source, over 70% of Americans use AI, so overall Americans should be happy about robotic teachers right? Well another source says that 7 out of 10 parents replied that they did not want robots in classrooms. Their reasoning is that they don’t trust AI to handle students’ grades and personal information, which I think is a brilliant point right there. Statistics about handling people without kids’ ideas with AI in classrooms are dropping. People especially disagree about allowing students to use AI for homework. Based off all of this and my own ideas, I believe that we should not have AI teachers.