From Times Higher Education: “It was an open letter bearing 419 signatures from qualitative researchers across 38 countries. … generative artificial intelligence is ‘inappropriate in all phases of reflexive qualitative analysis’. Not sometimes. Not with safeguards. Always … By virtue of bearing the surface features of the old quantitative threat of computation, automation and scale, AI triggers the same defensive reflex among qualitative researchers. An absolute ban protects identity yet does so by replacing enquiry with certainty – precisely what reflexivity was meant to guard against. And this absolutist rejection carries consequences the letter does not acknowledge.”
