Strengthening civic capacity through civic technology

YPS AI Agent was not designed around how many AI features could be added. It was designed around what people working on Youth, Peace & Security actually need: trustworthy knowledge, low barriers to access, privacy, evidence they can verify, and room for human judgment.

YPS does not have a knowledge shortage. Years of resolutions, national strategies, research, field evidence, and practical guidance are scattered across organizations, buried inside long documents and often inaccessible to people who do not already know where to look. YPS AI was built to make that accumulated knowledge easier to find, understand and use without replacing the people, institutions and communities who give it meaning.

A youth leader preparing for a policy consultation should be able to access the same evidence as the policymaker sitting across the table. A policymaker should be able to quickly explore how other countries approached a problem. A peacebuilder should be able to find field evidence. A researcher should be able to trace an answer back to its source.

YPS AI is built for youth leaders, civil society, peacebuilders, policymakers, practitioners, students, and researchers. Different users may ask different questions, but they should not need specialist knowledge of the YPS ecosystem just to begin.

YPS AI was tested with stakeholders around the world, and their feedback was considered at every stage of development. Their involvement helped connect the system’s development to the different settings in which YPS knowledge is used.

Technical performance is only part of whether a tool is useful. The people working with it bring questions, constraints and experience that a development team cannot fully anticipate. Their perspectives belong in decisions about what the agent should do, how it communicates evidence and where its limits need to be clearer.

The aim is a tool shaped by the field it serves, with stakeholder experience informing development alongside technical expertise.

No account. No login. No personal profile.

You can open YPS AI and start asking questions without giving anyone your name, email address, or creating an identity around your use of the platform. Conversation history is stored locally on your own device. Privacy is treated as part of access, especially in a field where researching governance, civic space, conflict, or security can itself be sensitive.

Access to public-interest knowledge should not depend on the ability to pay. YPS AI is available at zero cost to users. There is no subscription tier, premium answer, institutional license, or paywall between someone and the knowledge base. The aim is simple: a youth organization with limited resources should be able to use the same tool as an international institution.

The YPS agenda is global. Much of its documentation is not.

YPS AI can be used across 61 languages, allowing people (especially in Africa) to ask questions and explore YPS knowledge in languages they better understand. It does not solve the deeper problem of whose knowledge gets published or translated. The translation is also not very accurate, but it can reduce the language barrier between existing evidence and the people trying to use it.

AI can produce confident language. That is not the same as evidence.

YPS AI provides citations so users can move beyond the generated answer and examine the underlying sources themselves. The goal is not to create a new authority between people and the evidence. It is to make the path back to the evidence shorter and access to it easier.

Peacebuilding cannot be automated. YPS AI can help someone understand a framework, compare approaches, identify evidence, or prepare for a conversation. It cannot determine what a community wants, replace lived experience, negotiate legitimacy, make political choices, or decide what should happen next.

The system is designed to strengthen human agency, not substitute for it.

No login required. Zero cost. 61 languages. Local conversation storage. Source-linked answers. A curated YPS knowledge base. No unrestricted web search. Human judgment stays in control.

Individually, none of these choices is revolutionary. Together, they represent a different idea of what AI for peacebuilding can look like: useful without becoming intrusive, accessible without monetizing access, and powerful without pretending to know more than it does.