Abstract
The applications of artificial intelligence are generally present in all areas of life today, such as converting audio speech into literal texts, recognizing an image among millions of images, as well as preventing viruses and spam, automated trading of commercial shares, autopilot, and others. Distance education has important advantages such as flexibility, ease of access, self-discipline with a sense of responsibility, and the development of students' intellectual skills with the brainstorming method, ease of use, and a lower cost, with the possibility of organizing the time and schedule for education. E-learning requires the availability of high-speed Internet with the provision of the necessary digital devices and equipment such as computers, as well as securing and protecting the data that is circulated. Since smart learning is in relatively emerging stages, especially in the Arab world, it faces many barriers and challenges, the most important of which is that smart learning contradicts the rigid nature of traditional education, and educational institutions today focus more on managing personnel, buildings, and financing rather than the critical task of managing smart education. E-learning may lead to the neglect of social contacts and isolation, and thus the absence of collective feelings and solidarity among society in the long term, and it cannot fully take the role of the teacher or replace it.
