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What if artificial intelligence made training more human?

  • Writer: Christèle Simeoni
    Christèle Simeoni
  • Nov 6
  • 3 min read


AI is as scary as it fascinates actually!


It is said to be cold, dehumanizing and yet, in the world of training, it could well accomplish the opposite: make learning more humane.


At VRAI Learning, we are above all humans and we experience it every day: when technology serves pedagogy, it does not replace the link, it strengthens it.


Yesterday’s training: an often disembodied experience


For a long time, learning meant listening, reading, retaining but we hear each other, it always depends on who we have in front of us because if it’s a trainer facing a room, static materials, a uniform approach, it can be complicated for him as well as for the learner.


The content can be excellent, the intentions sincere... but it can sometimes lack something essential: emotion, practice, the link


Now, this is precisely what immersive technology and artificial intelligence make possible today.


Un avatar conversationnel IA interagit avec un apprenant dans un environnement virtuel, illustrant une formation plus humaine grâce à la technologie.

When AI becomes a benevolent mirror


A conversational AI avatar is not a clone of a teacher in the form of a robot: it is a learning companion who listens, understands, adapts.


He raises again when he feels hesitation, encourages when he perceives progress, restates when a notion remains unclear. And above all, he does not judge!


It accompanies, even if it generates data with interactions That’s what changes everything: the learner feels free to make mistakes, to start again, to progress at their own pace.


According to a study published in 2025 (Nature Humanities & Social Sciences), immersive learning environments combined with conversational agents reduce speech anxiety by up to 45%, boosting communicative confidence.


In other words: AI helps to dare to learn.


Scène d’apprentissage immersif en réalité virtuelle avec un avatar IA, représentant la personnalisation et l’humanisation de la formation.

Data at the service of individualization


A good trainer knows how to observe, listen, adjust but in a room of 20 or 200 people, impossible to adapt each word to each learner, this is where AI becomes a valuable ally.


Through the analysis of responses, or choices in an immersive scenario, our embodied AI identifies each one’s strengths and weaknesses.


Result: immediate, personalized feedback and a journey that evolves with the learner.


A meta-analysis of ResearchGate (2024) indicates that AI and virtual reality applied to training increase pedagogical efficiency by 66% compared to conventional approaches, but beyond the numbers, it is the quality of attention paid to each learner that changes.


Technology at the service of the relationship


Where some fear that AI will replace trainers, it can instead give them back time and meaning, with repetitive or administrative tasks that are automated, simulations managed by AI avatars, which allows teachers to focus on what they do best: transmit, inspire, accompany.


Would it be a form of role redistribution in training?


  • fewer constraints,

  • more relationship,

  • more presence.




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Learner side: a more lively, fairer, more engaging training


Basically, it is not technology that changes training, but the way in which it is used.  And when it is put at the service of pedagogy, something essential happens: the bond strengthens, the human takes its place 😊


But this approach goes beyond the framework of training because, beyond learning, it is also about living an experience of interacting, understanding, feeling accompanied!


Whether it is to train, welcome, inform or engage, we think of each journey as a true user experience: fluid, intuitive and meaningful.


AI avatars are not there to teach in our place, but to accompany, encourage, and understand. AI does not make training less human, it makes it more attentive, more personalized, more lively.


Because at its core, learning is above all about meeting, feeling and sharing, and this is perhaps the most beautiful promise of tomorrow’s training.



 
 
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