Ejercicio Texto 2 - 1 · Inglés PAU Extremadura Ordinaria 2026

Text 2: What would an AI university look like and how might it change education?

Professor Pan Hui has already been replaced by artificial intelligence—and he did the replacing himself. In 2023, one of his students mentioned that they were a little bored seeing the same professor every lesson and might enjoy being taught by some different faces. This gave Hui an idea: why not use generative AI and an avatar to teach the students instead? “I wanted to see whether the students would accept avatar teachers in the classroom and how they respond to this technology,” he says.

Like many researchers and educators, Hui views AI as a tool with potentially transformative power in education. So, over ten weeks in early 2024, postgraduate students were taught a course by various digital avatars. They could ask questions and an underlying large language model (LLM) provided real-time responses, syncing facial animations to the answers. Hui and colleagues collected data on the students’ experience via surveys and interviews. Students reported that certain human-like avatars felt more trustworthy than cartoonish avatars.

Hui’s experiment provides clues to the approach that an ‘AI-first’ university might take. AI has already had a seismic impact on higher education. The struggles faced by universities so far, both ethical and pedagogical, arise from the rapid deployment of AI tools into higher-education systems that were not equipped to handle them.

But what if new universities were built with AI as a core tool? From admissions that can be handled by AI agents to personalized tutoring and lesson plans based on individual learning needs, there is an opportunity to completely rethink how a university works as an educational institution.

Such ‘AI-first’ universities might find it easier to integrate technology, because they would include AI systems as the foundation of everything they do, suggests Helen Crompton, director of the Institute for Digital Innovation in Learning.

For some higher-education observers, however, there is both opportunity and concern. Anthony Kaziboni, a sociologist at the University of Johannesburg, says he is worried that if the companies behind AI systems are too involved in reshaping education, it would cause problems because their motivations “are not rooted in pedagogy, but profit.”

Source: www.nature.com (December 2025. Adapted).

1. Are the following statements true (T) or false (F)? Quote the fragment from the text that justifies your answer. Marks: 2 points (0.5 points per correct answer).

A.

Professor Hui has been replaced by AI because of a decision made by his superiors.

T

F

B.

The way students perceive different avatars is not always the same.

T

F

C.

AI has not affected university education much so far.

T

F

D.

Some experts believe there are dangers in AI-based education.

T

F