Breakfast | Unsplash by Eiliv Aceron
Breakfast | Unsplash by Eiliv Aceron
Many professions, including the mental health field, are greeting new AI technology like ChatGPT with excitement and fear, celebrating the possibilities while predicting the dark sides. For eating disorder experts, where everything from chatbot misdiagnoses to AI-generated body images can have devasting consequences for their patients, the concerns are high.
Eating Disorder Awareness Week is Feb. 27 – March 4
Below, Laura Kelley, media relations professional in the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Office of Communications, speaks with Emily Hemendinger, LCSW, MPH, CPH, ACS, the clinical director of the OCD Program and assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, about the benefits and pitfalls of technology when it comes to disordered eating and compulsive exercise.
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