This Panel Discussion is part of the pre-WCQR2026 program. The 10th World Conference on Qualitative Research (WCQR2026) will be held from 20 to 22 January 2026 at the Complutense University of Madrid – Faculty of Education, Spain, and from 02 to 05 February 2026 Online.
The employment of “Artificial Intelligence” (AI), especially Large Language Models (LLMs), in qualitative inquiry is the subject of much current discussion and debate. These concerns often focus on the ethics of deploying AI in qualitative research (e.g. Christou 2023; Marshall & Naff 2024). Less attention has been paid to 1) qualitative approaches to studying generative AI and its ethical implications in social practices, organizations, and relationships, and 2) how studying AI might (re-)shape the assumptions, approaches, and ethics of qualitative inquiry.
Our conversation will be animated by the following questions:
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- How are you deploying qualitative research to study the ethics and values that are embedded in and shaped by AI/LLMs?
- What does your research help us understand about the ethics of AI?
- What are the implications of your research for studying “the human,” as qualitative research aims to do?
- And how does studying AI-human relations (re-)shape how you think about ethics and values in the conduct of qualitative research?
September 30th, 2025 | Online (Free)
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