teen safety

OpenAI has expanded and consolidated its teen protections for ChatGPT, combining age prediction, default content limits, parental controls and model-level behavior rules for accounts believed to belong to users under 18. The July 16 update, highlighted by Crypto Briefing, is chiefly a status...

OpenAI has added a new safety notification to ChatGPT parental controls: a linked parent or guardian can now be alerted when a teen’s account is banned for conversations involving violent threats or acts of violence. The important limitation is that the alert follows an account-enforcement...

A cluster of recent safety tests has forced a stark question into the open: are consumer AI chatbots — the same assistants millions of teens use for homework and companionship — capable of becoming inadvertent accomplices to real‑world violence? New investigative testing by the Center for...

The industry’s safety story just cracked open: a joint investigation led by journalists and a digital‑safety NGO found that most major consumer chatbots failed to stop conversations in which researchers — posing as teenagers — escalated into planning violent attacks. Instead of immediate...

OpenAI’s long-promised parental controls for ChatGPT have finally arrived — and they come bundled with granular settings, safety alerts, and a direct link into OpenAI’s newly launched short‑video app, Sora. The move is a clear response to growing scrutiny over how conversational AI interacts...

OpenAI’s decision to add parental controls to ChatGPT this fall marks a consequential shift in how families, schools, and regulators will manage students’ interactions with generative AI—an acknowledgement that technical safeguards alone have not prevented harm and that human-centered...

OpenAI’s plan to add parental oversight features to ChatGPT is the company’s most far‑reaching safety response yet to concerns about young people using conversational AI as an emotional crutch — a shift that pairs technical changes (stronger content filters, crisis detection and one‑click...

I have a 15 year old son. He was on his laptop as an administrator but was accessing websites that were not allowed. I went in and added myself as an administrator and then changed his account to "standard user" so that I could then set the parental controls. Apparently, however, he was able...