Evidence record 7898 · automatically gathered

Should we welcome robot teachers?

Current uses of robots in classrooms are reviewed and used to characterise four scenarios: (s1) Robot as Classroom Teacher; (s2) Robot as Companion and Peer; (s3) Robot as Care-eliciting Companion; and (s4) Telepresence Robot Teacher. The main ethical concerns associated with robot teachers are identified as: privacy; attachment, deception, and loss of human contact; and control and accountability. These are discussed in terms of the four identified scenarios. It is argued that classroom robots

Record details

Published: 10 February 2016
Source: OpenAlex
Category: Research
Topics: Privacy · Children & education · Agents & autonomy · Transparency
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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ethics.ai (10 February 2016), “Should we welcome robot teachers?,” evidence record 7898, https://ethics.ai/record/7898 (originally published by OpenAlex).

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