Artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT has had a huge impact on the development of education. With the development and application of ChatGPT in the field of education, the issue of teacher roles being challenged has received widespread attention. This article discusses the development issues and transformation paths in the context of ChatGPT. This article believes that the role of teachers faces some challenges under the impact of artificial intelligence and urgently needs to adapt and transform. These issues include the weakening of teacher authority, alienation of teacher-student relationships, insufficient self-awareness of teacher roles, and a gap between knowledge and practice in teacher teaching practice. Based on this, this article analyzes that teachers need to transform from the original single teaching mode to guides, learning partners, "pilots" collaborative educators, integrators of teaching resources, and cultivators of knowledge construction for student learning. Therefore, to help teachers achieve better identity conversion, this article proposes the following suggestions. Teachers should fully understand their educational attributes, actively explore scientific educational methods, enhance their educational technology capabilities, integrate new-era educational resources, and help students become the leaders of learning.