Generative AI and Advocacy: Keeping Relationships at the Center
About this episode
This episode explores the use of Generative AI in advocacy while emphasizing the importance of maintaining relationships.
This training is an expansion of BRIDGE Training 5: The Advocacy Detective and examines how Generative AI can be used to move beyond surface-level searches to better understand your Member of Congress, district dynamics, committee priorities, and trusted messengers. It covers practical prompting techniques, how to spot and reduce hallucinations, and the importance of verifying outputs. It also briefly discusses how CCL approaches AI through the lens of clean, reliable energy. The throughline is that Generative AI is an additional tool option to support advocacy, but it is not a replacement for the relationships at the heart of CCL's work. Skip ahead to the following section(s):(0:00) Intro & Agenda(4:21) AI Background(10:50) Where AI Shines & Doesn't(19:44) Your Voice & Authenticity(27:17) Prompting Basics(32:14) Wrapping Up Presentation Slides: https://cclusa.org/ai-slides CCL Training Event: https://community.citizensclimate.org/events/item/24/21050 Log Your Attendance: https://community.citizensclimate.org/log_training?sf_id=a5yUP000000H5svYAC Prompt Script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VWoWUcnC1DA-Tbw5qe8StqKNrI_5i8JsVsX8HL8dXmY/edit?usp=sharing
Topics covered
- Generative AI
- advocacy
- relationship building
- Congress
- training
- clean energy
Keywords
- Generative AI
- advocacy
- Congress
- training
- relationship building
- clean energy
- prompting techniques
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Citizens' Climate Lobby, CCL
Products: Generative AI
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- Shane Londagin | May 2026 National Monthly Meeting | Citizens Climate Lobby
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