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widespread misinformation effects alcohol consumption health amplified covid19 pandemic social media internet channels chatbots conversational agents became important piece world health organization response covid19 pandemic quickly disseminate evidencebased information related covid19 tobacco public pan american health organization paho seized opportunity develop conversational agent talk alcoholrelated topics therefore complement traditional forms health education promoted past study aimed develop deploy digital conversational agent interact unlimited number users anonymously 24 hours day alcohol topics including ways reduce risks drinking accessible several languages cost various devices content development based latest scientific evidence impacts alcohol health social norms drinking data paho agent developed nonexclusive license agreement private company soul machines included google digital flow es natural language processing software amazon web services cloud services another company contracted program conversations following technical advice paho staff conversational agent named pahola deployed november 19 2021 paho website launch event high publicity identifiable data used interactions anonymous therefore considered research human subjects pahola speaks english spanish portuguese interacts anonymously potentially infinite number users various digital devices users required accept terms conditions enable access camera microphone interact pahola pahola attracted good attention media reached 16 million people leading 236000 clicks landing page mostly mobile devices 1532 users conversation clicking talk pahola average time users spent talking pahola 5 minutes major dropouts observed different steps conversation flow questions asked users anticipated programming could answered findings showed several limitations using conversational agent alcohol education general public improvements needed expand content make meaningful engaging public potential chatbots educate public alcoholrelated topics seems enormous requires longterm investment resources research useful reach many people