Don't ask AI to write your interview guide. Ask it to pull yours apart.
What
Take a discussion guide you've already written and ask AI to find its weaknesses, instead of asking it to write one for you.
Why
AI is good at spotting patterns, and leading questions and hidden assumptions are patterns. Asking it to write a guide gets you something generic. Asking it to critique yours keeps your thinking at the centre and uses AI where it's strongest.
How
1Remove anything confidential from your guide.
2Paste in the guide and your research questions.
3Ask:
Act as a critical senior researcher. Identify leading questions, assumptions about the participant, questions that don't map to our research questions, and anything likely to produce vague answers. Don't rewrite the guide. Just critique it.
What to watch for
- ○Does it spot leading questions you missed?
- ○Does it invent problems that aren't there?
- ○Is the critique more useful than a first draft would have been?
Tried it?
Did it make your guide better, or just different?
Tell us what happened, good or bad. Other members are trying it too.
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