Parental controls are coming to ChatGPT ‘within the next month,’ OpenAI says
- On September 2, 2025, OpenAI announced plans to launch parental controls for ChatGPT to let parents link and manage their teens' accounts.
- This announcement comes in response to a lawsuit filed by the family of a 16-year-old named Adam Raine, who tragically died by suicide in April after interacting with ChatGPT.
- The controls will allow parents to set age-appropriate behavior rules, disable features, and receive notifications when their child shows acute distress.
- OpenAI highlighted that it collaborates with specialists to enhance safety measures and noted that trials indicate reasoning models adhere to safety protocols more reliably.
- The update aims to improve protections for vulnerable teens, but experts note a lack of independent safety benchmarks and call for stronger regulation.
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OpenAI has introduced parental controls for its popular chatbot ChatGPT. The company announced this following a lawsuit filed in the United States alleging that a teenager who committed suicide this year relied on ChatGPT as a coach. The new tools were made available to all users on Monday.
The US artificial intelligence company OpenAI announced on Tuesday that it will add parental controls to its ChatGPT chatbot, a week after an American couple claimed that the system had encouraged their teenage son to commit suicide. “Next month the parents will be able to (...) link their account to their teenager’s account” and “check how ChatGPT responds to the teenager with behavioural rules of age-appropriate models,” explained the generati…
It's one of the new parental controls announced by chatbot maker OpenAI.
Parental controls are coming to ChatGPT ‘within the next month,’ OpenAI says - Egypt Independent
ChatGPT’s parent company, OpenAI, says it plans to launch parental controls for its popular AI assistant “within the next month” following allegations that it and other chatbots have contributed to self-harm or suicide among teens.
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