Episode 007 Christina chats with Jack Bowen

Jack Bowen is co-founder on Genei.io https://www.genei.io/ (an AI summarization tool aimed at students and academics), and CoLoop, https://www.coloop.ai a qualitative analysis tool launched in March 2023, and what we mainly chat about in this episode.

Find out about Jack on his LinkedIn profile   / jack-at-coloop  

Jack is one of the newer developers in the field of computer assisted qualitative data analysis, and he focuses on harnessing generative-ai for qualitative research. He's been building research tools using generative AI since graduating from the University of Oxford in 2020.

In this episode we chat about how Jack got into developing these tools, how they work and his thoughts on the impact of AI on qualitative research more generally, issues of ethics and data privacy in the qualitative-AI space and his thoughts about the future.

Enjoy!

Episode Links

• Symposium on AI in Qualitative Research (hosted by the CAQDAS Networking Project and the Social Research Association). Almost 6 hours of recordings available in 2 parts on YouTube, including presentation by Jack on the 'what, why and how' of CoLoop (starts at 00:09:50 in Part One.
   • AI in Qualitative Analysis  

• Blogpost by me about CoLoop, June 7th 2023 https://www.qdaservices.co.uk/post/th...

• On demand workshop featuring CoLoop, hosted by Instats and led by me https://instats.org/seminar/using-gen...

• The pessimists archive - snippets of hysteria, technophobia and moral panic that often greets new technologies, ideas and trends. https://pessimistsarchive.org/