Castle Craig is advocating for urgent clinical oversight of AI platforms as concern grows over unregulated access.
As artificial intelligence tools become embedded in daily life, clinicians at Castle Craig are raising urgent concerns about the role AI chatbots are playing in the lives of people with eating disorders and calling for meaningful regulation before the harm becomes impossible to ignore.
Eating disorders are among the most dangerous and most underestimated psychiatric conditions. Anorexia nervosa has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder. Nearly half of all eating disorders do not fit established diagnostic categories. Yet they remain widely misunderstood, in part because disordered behaviour can hide in plain sight, masked as discipline, wellness or self-improvement.
It is precisely this cultural camouflage, clinicians say, that makes the current AI landscape so concerning.
"The escalation in the last...
