Qualitative Research in the Age of AI: Considerations, Critiques, and Craft

The authors are grateful to Editor-in-Chief Lamar Pierce for the opportunity to write this piece and for his helpful and constructive comments on earlier versions. This work also reflects conversations with Grace Augustine, Beth Bechky, Daphne Demetry, and Anastasia Sergeeva, and accompanying an Ethnography Atelier workshop and two Northeastern Qualitative Research Conference presentations by the authors on AI in qualitative research. Finally, the authors are grateful to the many colleagues, students, and participants in various other workshops and conferences with whom they discussed these issues.