AUTHOR=Otermans Pauldy C. J. , Demetriadis Stavros , Richards Deborah TITLE=Editorial: The role of conversational AI in higher education JOURNAL=Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence VOLUME=Volume 8 - 2025 YEAR=2025 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/artificial-intelligence/articles/10.3389/frai.2025.1602037 DOI=10.3389/frai.2025.1602037 ISSN=2624-8212