Thomas Gruber

About

Tom Gruber is a product designer and entrepreneur who uses AI technology to augment human intelligence. He was cofounder and head of design for the team that created Siri, the intelligent assistant. At Apple for over 8 years, Tom led the Advanced Development Group that designed and prototyped new capabilities for products that bring intelligence to the interface. Tom promotes the philosophy of Humanistic AI, which he presented in a popular TED talk. He was a founding board member of the Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society and advocates for the Center for Humane Technology. Throughout his career, Tom has explored the intersection of AI and the UI between humans and computers. In the 1980’s he built AI language models for augmented communication systems that gave voices to the speechless, and interfaces for experts to build their own expert systems. In the 1990’s he developed the first interactive documents on the web that generated natural language answers in response to questions about how things work. Tom advises companies and organizations that exemplify the values of Humanistic AI to have a positive impact.