One day, everyone will have their own personal teacher. It will not be a human but an AIA computer programme that has been designed to think.  robot.

This robot will monitor your work. It will use the data it collects to adapt your lessons to your needs.

Do you find it easier to work by doing rather than writing? Your AI tutor will set tasks that fit your needs. Feedback will be instant. There will be no need to wait for your homework to be marked.

There will still be human teachers. But instead of guiding the entire class, they will take the most important points from AI robots and use these to address students' individual needs.

It might not just be in school. Your AI tutor might guide you throughout your life. Want to learn a new skill? Have a difficult question you need help to answer? Your AI tutor will help you. 

This might sound far-fetched. But it is one vision that many technologists have for the future of learning.

AI has many possible uses in schools. It could replace registration with biometric scanning. Pupils would confirm their attendance by a facial recognition technology or fingerprint.

The classroom might also change. There will be smart windows that can adapt to changing light. Expensive, heavy textbooks will be phased out. Screens will play a bigger role, fully replacing paper exercise books. 

Whiteboards will be replaced by room-covering screens. These might have access to augmented realityA technology that superimposes a computer-generated image on a user's view of the real world. For example, Google Glasses allow users to search the internet and carry out tasks on a screen in their visual field., allowing virtual objects to appear in the real world. Classes could learn to dissect digital mice or take a tour through the world's oceans without leaving the room.

If they stay in the room, that is. The metaverseAn online virtual world. A combination of meta, meaning beyond, and universe. might make school a virtual domain. Teachers and pupils could interact while being physically apart.

All of these ideas suggest that technology can improve education. As specialist Dr Sonal Kukreja writes: "Education will no longer be one-size-fits-all; it will be a unique journey for each learner, with AI providing real-time adjustments to cater to individual learning needs and styles."

This AI-powered system could be hugely beneficial. It could spark new creativity. Children who do not fit the current educational model could find a type of learning that suits their needs.

It could create generations of geniuses. AI can take the entirety of human wisdom and achievement, then filter and refine it into the perfect form for individual consumption. 

Others are more cautious. One of AI's benefits is its ability to cut out hard work. It summarises and unpacks complicated documents so we do not have to. But we often learn better by grappling with complex material ourselves.

Studies have often found, for example, that we absorb information better when we take handwritten notes than when we type. This is because we have to summarise ourselves to keep up.¹

Virtual school has its own issues. As BBC's Holly Spanner writes: "Schools aren't solely for educational development; they're for social and emotional development". It will be harder to achieve this through the metaverse.

Will there be millions more geniuses?

Yes: Millions of children across the world are let down by one-size-fits-all education systems. The AI-driven school of the future will allow more pupils to unlock their true, unique potential.

No: Genius is relative. Even if AI can educate people better than before, it will still not be able to create geniuses. And genius often involves doing something new - something which AI finds difficult.

Or... AI-aided teaching might help more students to reach their academic potential than ever before. But intelligence is also about emotional intelligence - something that only other humans can teach us.