Helping teens learn, plan, and shape the future of AI

Key Findings

• — Teens spend under 15 minutes a day on ChatGPT on average, and fewer than 2% of teens spend more than three consecutive hours; the post contrasts this with a publicly reported five-hour average for teen social media use.
• — In almost half of teen conversations in which a break reminder appeared, the teen took a break or ended the conversation within five minutes.
• — Among teens with sessions longer than three consecutive hours, over 80% had at least one learning-related prompt.
• — In one week, nearly 1.2 million teens used Learning Visualizations and more than 180,000 used Study Mode; teens with access to ChatGPT for Teens sent about 2.7 million more learning-related messages on average than those without it.
• — OpenAI will fund Boston Children's Hospital's Digital Wellness Lab for three years to run a student advisory council of about 22 students (ages 14 to 20) that will test tools and give feedback on teen safety defaults, parental controls and notifications.
• — College Planner, initially for US students in grades 10 to 12, will bring application requirements, deadlines and financial-aid steps into one plan; OpenAI is also funding College Advising Corps.

Methodology Notes

Vendor product telemetry with no denominators, measurement periods, country breakdown or method stated; the five-hour social-media comparison is attributed to an external public report via a link. Dated 2026-10-07 on the page. openai.com returns HTTP 403 to crawlers, so the text was read from the Wayback Machine capture of 2026-10-07 16:06 UTC; the title and date match the OpenAI RSS feed entry.

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