In the summer of 2024, YCEJ is launching a generative AI prototype tool in partnership with partners in Bridgeport and aimed at supporting environmental justice communities in the northeast United States.
The tool will be optimized initially to help communities file public comments on regulatory processes that affect them. In a second stage, it will expand to use a corpus of prior community strategies to suggest context-specific strategies and levers for EJ challenges. Over time, the tool will be able to provide easy access to place-based summaries of environmental data and risks.
The tool’s architecture is being designed to eventually be generalizable to any geography. We accomplish this with a database architecture that can vectorize pools of locally relevant training materials (like historical records, news accounts, etc…) while maintaining a core engine that can serve in diverse contexts. YCEJ is actively seeking funding to grow this tool and to expand its reach to communities around the world.
