The Trump administration is spending $14 million at three federal agencies for AI tools that can help speed up the environmental permitting process.
The outlay can be seen as an extension of both the White House’s desire to get more roads, bridges, mines, and data centers built faster, and its broad campaign to expand the federal government’s use of AI to increase efficiency.
The new tools by design don’t take advantage of AI’s full cognitive or reasoning capabilities, but the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council still thinks they can dramatically cut wait times and snip out human errors, Emily Domenech, …
