It is many home workers’ dream: replace yourself with an artificial intelligence avatar on calls and take the rest of the day off.

However, when one Australian university lecturer tried this he was surprised to find that many of his students not only failed to notice the swap but, when it was revealed, preferred the AI version.

Dr Luke Rowe, a senior education researcher at Australian Catholic University, carried out the experiment as part of his teaching of AI ethics.

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