Generative AI Is Neither Just Another IT Artefact nor a Colleague: Methodological Guidance for IS Scholarship

Summary

ISJ editorial arguing that GenAI is ontologically neither an ordinary IT artefact nor a human colleague, and that IS scholarship therefore needs its own methodological guidance for studying and using it. Directly relevant to the 'AI and theorizing' debate and to how an IS author should frame an AI-driven research pipeline methodologically.

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Relevance to RISE

Surfaced by the 2026-08-29 literature sweep as a high-priority candidate for the RISE knowledge base (angle: IS / management discourse on GenAI research). Verified against: Crossref publisher record opened 2026-08-29 (title, 6 authors, ISJ 36(2):161-165, online 2025-12-25); Semantic Scholar record also opened; Wiley full text HTTP 403

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