Hans Jørgen Wiberg
Founder, Be My Eyes
Danish furniture craftsman and visually impaired advocate who founded Be My Eyes, connecting blind users to sighted volunteers and, later, an AI visual assistant.
Key arguments & positions
- Argues the fastest help for a blind person is often a sighted human on a video call, not a specialized device.
- Says assistive services should be free to the people who need them, funded by partners rather than users.
- Treats AI description as an addition to volunteer help, not a replacement for it.
Accomplishments
- Founded Be My Eyes in 2012 and launched it in 2015; he is visually impaired himself.
- The app has connected millions of sighted volunteers with blind and low-vision users across more than 150 countries.
- Launched Be My AI, a visual-description assistant built on GPT-4 with vision, offered free in the app.
Papers & key writings
Speaks publicly about the service rather than publishing; Be My Eyes documents its work on its own blog.
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