Our Goal

Make web text so easy we understand it the first time we read it.

What We Do

• We teach AI to make text easy to understand.
• We do all we can to teach AI to be fair to all.
• See our exciting new project, Easy-COVID-19.

• Use plain-language rules for AI to write easy text.
• Test if people understand easy text more than typical text.
• Include self-advocates and autistics as peer researchers.

Who We Serve

• people with learning disabilities;
• people who can’t read well;
• people who speak other languages; and
• really, everyone!

Who Is Doing It

• John Rochford, INDEX Program Director, Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center; and Faculty Member, University of Massachusetts Medical School (About Me);
• Amazing Staff of the INDEX Program;
• Autistics and Other Self-Advocates (people with intellectual disabilities).
• Students From:
  • Suffolk University;
  • Worcester Polytechnic University
    • Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science
    • Data Science Program,
    • User Experience and Decision Making Laboratory;
  • Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Massachusetts Boston.

Who Is Funding Us

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Who Has Funded Us

Amazon Machine Learning Research Awards

 Commonwealth Medicine

Where We Are

EasyText.AI, 60 Prescott Street, Worcester, MA 01605

Our Values

I, John Rochford, have signed these petitions: Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter and the Asilomar AI Principles.