New Nordic Collaboration Initiatives
Is AI already treating your patients?
What does a safe, ethical, and relevant AI look like in eating disorder care?
Chaired by Pia Carpentier
Artificial intelligence has already become a frontline mental health interface. For many individuals with emerging eating disorder symptoms, AI is often the first place where distress is expressed, well before clinical contact. This shift is happening rapidly, largely outside healthcare systems.
This creates a paradox as AI may significantly improve early access and support, yet it also carries substantial risks in a population characterized by ambivalence, perfectionism, and vulnerability to reinforcement of harmful behaviors.
In this initiative we focus on the following critical questions:
- Where is AI already influencing eating disorder trajectories?
- What value can AI realistically add to prevention and care pathways?
- What are the highest-risk failure modes in this population?
- What design requirements are essential for ED-sensitive AI?
- How can AI be integrated responsibly into healthcare systems?
By this initiative we hope to create a Nordic Interest Group to bridge the gap between AI research and clinical practice by translating current technological capabilities into concrete implications for eating disorder care.
Learning from those with lived experience – Strengthening Early Intervention and Recovery in Eating Disorders in the Nordics
Chaired by Elin Gudmunsdottir
Eating disorder services in the Nordic countries remain largely centered on clinical treatment, often leaving gaps in early intervention, accessibility, and long-term recovery support. This initiative wants to explore how lived experience driven, community-based approaches can offer complementary pathways rooted in empowerment, connection, and wellbeing.
The initiative focuses on peer support, nature-based practices, and creative expression as tools for early support and recovery. These approaches align with growing knowledge on the importance of social connection, meaning-making, and holistic wellbeing in recovery, while addressing the need for more accessible and preventative services.
The aim is to highlight how lived experience can be meaningfully integrated into service design and delivery and to explore opportunities for cross-Nordic collaboration to strengthen these perspectives, share knowledge, and contribute to more diverse and responsive systems of care.
Join our meeting to hear more, and start up a Nordic Special Interest Group.