Editorial: Impact of generative AI on teacher-student interaction

The use of generative AI in education is now being explored by various educational institutions. Experiments are increasingly taking place in universities as well as in schools. However, what I find most interesting about this recent introduction is the fact that the first thought is generally that the machine could replace the human. Indeed, it seems to us that this could happen, while it is quite obvious that in most of the experiments the direct relationship between teacher and student remains in all interactions, sometimes supplemented by the support of the AI machine, sometimes guided by the logic of human-machine hybridization, or of the AI co-pilot helping the teacher to carry out his or her task with more information and suggestions than he or she may have had in previous years. This kind of affirmation of the human-human/teacher-learner interaction leads me to understand which studies could provide interesting insights on this topic. Indeed, generative AI (GenAI) is increasingly influencing teacher-student interactions in higher education, presenting both opportunities and challenges.