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Max Melchior Lang

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

What can surveys miss when respondents choose the same answer option? In this pre-print, we argue that public opinion research needs not only to know where respondents stand, but how they think. AI Conversational Interviewing is one way to make that observable at scale

AI Conversational Interviewing: Scaling Up Semi-Structured and In-depth Interviews
Public opinion research has long faced a trade-off between depth and scale: standardized surveys enable large-scale measurement but restrict respondents to researcher-defined categories, obscuring the diversity of unexpected considerations that underlie public sentiment. More conversational interviews provide richer insights through open-ended probing, but their reliance on trained human interviewers has kept them difficult to scale. This study introduces AI Conversational Interviewing as a method for collecting open-ended public opinion data at scale, pursuing three objectives: to demonstrate the analytical value of conversational text data for questions beyond the reach of closed-ended items; to assess the method's practical viability through participants' own evaluations; and to inform implementation by experimentally comparing voice-based, chat-based, and free-choice interview modes. We conducted a study combining an AI-led interview with a standardized survey on migration policy among 571 respondents recruited via Prolific and Payback Panel. The findings establish AI Conversational Interviewing as a viable and valuable addition to the social-science toolkit. The conversational transcripts surface considerations and reasoning that a comprehensive standardized battery does not capture such as markedly different mental models of migration among subgroups with similar attitudes levels. Among respondents who completed the interview, evaluations of the AI interview were at or above those of the standardized survey across modes, although completion itself varied by condition. By releasing open data and open-source pipeline materials, the study contributes to a growing literature on harnessing artificial intelligence to expand the methods of public opinion measurement.

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

You want to conduct semi-structured interviews at scale via voice or chat? @maxmlang.bsky.social offers an open-source framework for you to use: OASIS oasis-surveys.github.io github.com/oasis-survey...

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Max Melchior Lang @maxmlang.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Great video about our work and research @SchistoTrack by @OxfordSparks. www.oxfordsparks.ox.ac.uk/videos/schis...

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What is the SchistoTrack Research Group? - Oxford Sparks

Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease estimated to affect 250 million people worldwide. The SchistoTrack Research Group are trying to tackle the disease.

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