AI Looks Different When You’re Losing Your Vision | Living with Lumin, Sriram Ganesh

In the first episode of Living with Lumin, CEO Sriram Ganesh joins Pat Quinn to share the story behind Lumin, a voice-first AI assistant designed by and for the blind and low vision community. We talk about the everyday frustrations that inspired the app, finding community after vision loss, and the unexpected ways people use Lumin. We also discuss AI skepticism, Meta glasses, and the trade-offs between privacy, accessibility, and independence. Ready to try Lumin for yourself? Download it for iPhone and manage your email and calendar entirely by voice: trylumin.ai #AssistiveTechnology #Blind #LowVision #Accessibility #ai Chapters 00:00 Welcome to Living with Lumin 01:16 Sriram’s background and vision loss 03:48 What is Lumin? 04:43 Everyday frustrations with low vision 05:50 Finding a boarding pass by voice 07:48 Building Lumin as “user zero” 09:42 Unexpected ways people use Lumin 14:15 Finding the blind and low vision community 19:23 Why use Lumin alongside ChatGPT? 22:03 AI skepticism, trust, and independence 26:25 Meta glasses and technology trade-offs 31:40 Why we started Living with Lumin 33:23 How to try Lumin