Navigating Incommensurability Between Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis, and Artificial Intelligence

Like many research communities, ethnomethodologists and conversation analysts have begun to get caught up—yet again—in the pervasive spectacle of surging interests in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Inspired by discussions amongst a growing network of researchers in ethnomethodology (EM) and conversation analysis (CA) traditions who nurse such interests, I started thinking about what things EM and the more EM end of conversation analysis might be doing about, for, or even with, fields of AI research. So, this piece is about the disciplinary and conceptual questions that might be encountered, and—in my view—may need addressing for engagements with AI research and its Although I’m mostly concerned with to aware as as outright later we can