Consensus Chat

Consensus Chat is the conversational AI feature in Consensus that allows users to ask scientific questions and receive answers grounded in and cited from peer-reviewed research. Unlike asking a general AI chatbot, responses are synthesized from actual published studies with links to the source papers. Students, clinicians, journalists, and curious people use Consensus to get evidence-backed answers to questions like 'Does intermittent fasting improve metabolic health?' and receive a summary of what the scientific literature actually shows, with links to the relevant studies. Consensus Chat addresses the specific problem of getting evidence-based answers to empirical questions without the hallucination risk of general AI chatbots. Its grounding in actual published research makes it particularly valuable for health, nutrition, and scientific questions where accuracy matters.