"Imagine vulnerable people with eating disorders reaching out to a robot for support because that’s all they have available and receiving responses that further promote the eating disorder," wrote psychologist Alexis Conason in an Instagram post sharing screenshots providing similar advice as Maxwell ...
AI might be heralded as a way toboost workplace productivityand even make some jobs easier, but Tessa's stint was short-lived. The chatbot ended up providing dubious and even harmful advice to people with eating disorders, such as recommending that they count calories and strive for adeficito...
Nearly 20%—or 43.8 million American adults—have experienced some form of mental illness in any given year, which can present itself in a wide variety of disorders, including anxiety, schizophrenia, substance abuse, eating, mood, and personality disorders.1 For about 9.8 million people—or 4%...
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28. Mental or psychiatric health, learning disability, developmental delay, autism, behavior disorders, eating disorders, neuropsychological testing, alcohol/substance abuse counseling, attention deficit disorder, or hyperactivity. 29. Speech therapy (except for a deficit arising from stroke/trauma). 30...
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Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by binge eating followed by inappropriate attempts to compensate for the binge, such as self-induced vomiting or the excessive use of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas. In other cases, the binge eating is
the main support system available through NEDA. A helpline worker described the move as union busting, and the union representing the fired workers said that “a chatbot is no substitute for human empathy, and we believe this decision will cause irreparable harm to the eating diso...