Nick Watson, flood and coastal erosion risk management manager, said the council reviewed thousands of planning applications each year.
“While these assessments are vital for protecting communities, they can be complex and time-consuming to produce and review.”
He said there was an issue with the consistency of what was submitted.
“This will be a way to help overcome that, in that it’ll be able to extract key bits of documents.
“We hope that it’ll be able to review what’s been submitted, check that against the massive amount of planning policy that’s out there and flag up issues.”
The information would then be reviewed by officers, he said, adding: “AI will not be making any decisions.”