Explainable AI for blind and low-vision users: navigating trust, modality, and interpretability in the agentic era https://arxiv.org/html/2604.00187v1 "users often internalize AI failures as their own mistakes"; #AI #LLM #blindness

Explainable AI for Blind and Low-Vision Users: Navigating Trust, Modality, and Interpretability in the Agentic Era

Explainable AI for blind and low-vision users: navigating trust, modality, and interpretability in the agentic era arxiv.org/html/2604.00... "users often internalize AI failures as their own mistakes"; #AI #LLM #blindness

Parents spend $50k on overseas stem cell therapy as experts issue warning A young mother who travelled overseas for controversial stem cell therapy hopes new treatments will one day be available in Australia, but experts warn there's still a "long way" to go.

My little kindy student making the ABC news! #Disability #Blindness

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Spiritual Blindness * Spiritually Asleep Graphic 05

#SpiritualBlindness #SpirituallyBlind #Blindness #Blind

"Spiritual Blindness" KJV Bible Verse List:

https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse064.html

"Don't Harden Your Heart" KJV Bible Verse List:

https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/ve

Cumulative install chart

The vOICe vision BCI app for Android crossed the 600,000 cumulative installs mark from Google Play play.google.com/store/apps/details Compare this to the number of Neuralink Blindsight brain implants in humans to date (spoiler: zero). #noninvasive #BCI #blindness

Cumulative install chart

The vOICe vision BCI app for Android crossed the 600,000 cumulative installs mark from Google Play play.google.com/store/apps/d... Compare this to the number of Neuralink Blindsight brain implants in humans to date (spoiler: zero). #noninvasive #BCI #blindness

Blind Low Vision NZ - Shining a Light on Blindness

Shining A Light on Blindness. Outcomes for working age #blind and vision impaired people report. No surprises - things aren't great, But will anyone who can change things bother to do anything is the question? blindlowvision.org.nz/shining-a-li... #blindness #visionimpairment

CW: #scars #blindness
When Guin’s magic manifested, she injured herself and Gawain severely. It left these type of scars all over her body and on Gawain’s face. Gawain is almost fully blind in his right eye due to the incident.

https://ei-lca.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/immunity-versus-new-therapy-1.pdf

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“Immunity versus new therapy”. A battle for greater influence inside the human eye, and when fiction could become reality. March 24, 2026.
@social.npo.one @fightblindness.bsky.social lindness.bsky.social @sarepta.com
#LCA10 #blindness

Can Electrical Stimulation Restore Sight? Researchers at UC San Diego seek to regenerate damaged optic nerves with electrical stimulation.

Can electrical stimulation restore sight?

@spectrum.ieee.org details the work of Shadi Dayeh at @ucsandiego.bsky.social

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#BionicVision #NeuroTech #BCI #blindness

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To ChatGPT: Elon Musk focuses on scalable technologies, also for the upcoming Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for the blind. At some point these implants will start to fail in patients. Will Neuralink's handling of failing brain implant prove scalable? […]

ChatGPT: "Failure handling - not initial implantation - will determine whether Neuralink is truly scalable."

#BCI #NeuroTech #blindness

Bob Shaw, Night Walk, Corgi, 1977. Cover: Vicente Segrelles. #BobShaw #VicenteSegrelles #blindness

Simulation of prosthetic vision with the PRIMA system and enhancement of face representation link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12984-0... Now in Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation; #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness

Simulation of prosthetic vision with the PRIMA system and enhancement of face representation - Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation Objective Patients implanted with the PRIMA photovoltaic subretinal prosthesis in geographic atrophy report form vision with the average acuity matching the 100 μm pixel size. Although this remarkable...

Simulation of prosthetic vision with the PRIMA system and enhancement of face representation link.springer.com/article/10.1... Now in Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation; #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness

Brown glass on brown wooden table top, with insets showing AI depth map view in The vOICe for Android.

Visual prostheses (brain implants, retinal implants) for the blind typically require high contrast scenes for good results. AI depth mapping with foveal enlargement can help get around that play.google.com/store/apps/details AI depth view toggle […]

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Brown glass on brown wooden table top, with insets showing AI depth map view in The vOICe for Android.

Visual prostheses (brain implants, retinal implants) for the blind typically require high contrast scenes for good results. AI depth mapping with foveal enlargement can help get around that play.google.com/store/apps/d... AI depth view toggle in menu Options.

#BCI #NeuroTech #blindness

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(YouTube, 2024) Towards a smart bionic eye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhEEEyYAegA on the Orion I brain implant and AI, with Jason Esterhuizen; "It's sort of like learning a new language. And the closest I could explain what I see is like looking up at the stars at night." #BCI #NeuroTech […]

(YouTube, 2024) Towards a smart bionic eye www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhEE... on the Orion I brain implant and AI, with Jason Esterhuizen; "It's sort of like learning a new language. And the closest I could explain what I see is like looking up at the stars at night." #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness

(YouTube) European Innovation Council advertorial: ReVision Implant - restoring vision https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ybRgg09hs #Occular #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness

(YouTube) European Innovation Council advertorial: ReVision Implant - restoring vision www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9yb... #Occular #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness

The vOICe for Android in AI depth view mode, showing a nearby garden chair.

(YouTube) I don't have that white garden chair anymore, but The vOICe AI depth view would have made it still easier for Jens Naumann, blind former recipient of a Dobelle brain implant, to find the chair in my garden […]

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(YouTube) I don't have that white garden chair anymore, but The vOICe AI depth view would have made it still easier for Jens Naumann, blind former recipient of a Dobelle brain implant, to find the chair in my garden www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GsD... #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness

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Vision Quest (again) https://stanfordmag.org/contents/vision-quest "An eye prosthesis 20 years in the making restores sight in patients with a common age-related eye disease." #PRIMA retinal implant

Not to be confused with the "Vision Quest" article in WIRED of 2002 about the Dobelle brain […]

Vision Quest A HALF CENTURY OF ARTIFICIAL-SIGHT RESEARCH HAS SUCCEEDED. AND NOW THIS BLIND MAN CAN SEE. I’M SITTING ACROSS FROM A BLIND MAN — CALL HIM PATIENT Alpha — at a long table in a windowless conference roo...

Not to be confused with the "Vision Quest" article in WIRED of 2002 about the Dobelle brain implant for restoring vision www.wired.com/2002/09/visi... #BCI #blindness

IEEE Spectrum: Can electrical stimulation restore sight? spectrum.ieee.org/optic-nerve-damage-elect... "Electrode arrays could help regenerate damaged optic nerves"; #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness

Can Electrical Stimulation Restore Sight? Researchers at UC San Diego seek to regenerate damaged optic nerves with electrical stimulation.

IEEE Spectrum: Can electrical stimulation restore sight? spectrum.ieee.org/optic-nerve-... "Electrode arrays could help regenerate damaged optic nerves"; #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness

(YouTube) Augmented Reality for the Blind? There's an app for that: The vOICe for Android! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHnnhlBGXkE by Jacob Kruger, blind user of The vOICe, via @news; #scalable #noninvasive #BCI #blindness

(YouTube) Augmented Reality for the Blind? There's an app for that: The vOICe for Android! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHnn... by Jacob Kruger, blind user of The vOICe; #scalable #noninvasive #BCI #blindness

The brain after blindness: How newly-sighted people build a visual world When people born blind gain sight, the hardest part isn’t opening their eyes — it’s teaching the brain how to see.

The #neuroscience of regaining your #sight after being born #blind.

#blindness #science 🧪 #cognition #brain #brains

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