Hello,
It is Yannick Lyons from The Teaching Twin Newsletter
When educators ask whether AI avatars are ethical, what they are really asking is this:
“Am I still teaching?”
That question matters. It means you care about the role you play in your students’ lives.
The ethical line in education has never been about the medium. It has always been about authorship and responsibility.
A textbook is ethical because the professor wrote it.
A recorded lecture is ethical because the professor taught it.
An AI avatar is ethical for the same reason.
It does not generate ideas.
It does not interpret the subject.
It does not replace judgment.
It delivers what you wrote.
The ethics stay intact because the intent stays human.
Where things become questionable is when tools begin to think instead of assist. That is not what an avatar does. It is closer to a camera than a colleague.
Practical Ways to Stay Grounded
Write every script yourself, even if it starts as notes.
Speak in your natural teaching voice.
Introduce the avatar as a delivery format, not a substitute.
Keep live interaction as part of the course when possible.
Students do not lose trust when tools change.
They lose trust when ownership disappears.
As long as your teaching remains yours, the ethics remain intact.
Talk later,
Yannick
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