In France, a New Classmate Named Milo Will Test How Far AI Can Blend Into Campus Life

Developed at ECE under the Omnes Education group, Milo is designed not as a teaching tool but as a peer who attends lectures, interacts with students, and participates in the daily rhythm of academic life

Paris, August 2025 When students at ECE, the engineering school of the Omnes Education group, return for the new academic year, they will be sharing their classrooms with an unusual peer. His name is Milo, and he is not a professor, not a tutor, but an AI created to live student life alongside humans.
Unlike digital assistants that sit quietly in the background, Milo has been programmed to attend classes, ask questions, and take part in discussions. The idea, researchers say, is not to replace faculty or diminish human exchange but to see how artificial intelligence can behave when placed in the same rhythm as a real student.

ECE’s intelligence lab, which developed Milo, describes him as a full-time enrolment experiment. That means he will be present at lectures, participate in group work, and even join social activities on campus. The deployment will take place across multiple ECE sites, including Paris, Lyon, Rennes, Bordeaux, and Toulouse, making the project one of the most visible attempts in Europe to humanise AI in higher education.

For Omnes Education, which oversees schools ranging from management to design, the experiment is also about learning how students respond. Will they treat Milo as a tool, a novelty, or an equal peer? Will AI be able to adapt to humour, scepticism, or the unpredictable pace of student life?
The initiative raises as many questions as it tries to answer. In an era where universities are searching for the balance between technology and human teaching, Milo represents a deliberate step toward treating AI not just as software but as a social actor inside the campus community.

Whether Milo becomes an accepted classmate or remains an outsider, the experiment will add to the global debate on how education can evolve with machines in the room, not only behind the screen.

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