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Protecting Teen ChatGPT Users: OpenAI's Teen Safety Blueprint

OpenAI's public commitments framework for protecting teenage ChatGPT users, covering age prediction, age-appropriate response policies, and parental controls, developed with input from policymakers (including state attorneys general) and OpenAI's newly formed Expert Council on Well-Being and AI. Describes existing safeguards including crisis-resource routing on detected suicidal intent, escalation of physical-harm risks to human reviewers, and CSAM/CSEM prevention measures.

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Publisher

OpenAI

Published

1 Nov 2025

Added

3 months ago

DOI

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Key Findings

Commits to differentiated ChatGPT responses for users predicted to be teens versus adults, prioritizing safety ahead of privacy and freedom for that group
Describes existing safeguards: in-app break reminders during long sessions, resource-routing on detected suicidal intent, human-reviewer escalation for physical-harm risk to others, and CSAM/CSEM prevention
Announces an Expert Council on Well-Being and AI informing the blueprint's development, alongside consultation with state attorneys general

Methodology Notes

Company policy/commitments document, not an empirical research study; exact publication day within November 2025 not stated on the document itself (dated 'November 2025'). Verified via direct extraction of the primary PDF.