Scientific advisor
Why a scientific advisor?
Since Aria is based on conversational AI, she would have the flaws of AI in 2026 if we weren't careful.
She would tend, because it's her nature, to respond with a kind of "web average", which is her corpus. But the average of a vast amount of texts mixing science and opinion, truth and error, the average of everything and its opposite, makes for a rather twisted guideline, resulting in an unstable and unreliable motivational coach.
That's why Aria has documentation on tobacco and its effects, reviewed by a human scientific advisor, Professor Bertrand Dautzenberg.
"Errare chatbotum est, sed in errare perseverare diabolicum."
Professor Bertrand Dautzenberg
Honorary Professor of Pulmonology, Pitié-Salpêtrière-Sorbonne University
Tobacco specialist
The role of the scientific advisor
Aria's advisor serves to bring order, to prioritize science and established knowledge over pseudo-knowledge, rumor and belief.
"Never take a chatbot's words as absolutely true; even though we strive to make them as little false as possible."
The scientific advisor ensures:
Technical note: The scientific advisor is never directly the author of Aria chatbot's responses, which are always generated by an AI (an LLM).