“The bot program has been pulled for now. But both sides agree that with funding hard to come by the program to help those with eating disorders needs help. “I do think that we’ve shown that we can develop this tool with guardrails to have really helpful conversations with people,” Fitzsimmons-Craft said. [Janice] Bremis agrees in time, technology can be part of the solution. “We can’t judge because they’re trying something new and it’s a good thing to experiment. That’s what science and health is all about,” she said.”
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