OpenAI introduces ChatGPT for Teens with enhanced safety features

OpenAI introduces ChatGPT for Teens with enhanced safety features

Health Technology

OpenAI announced the launch of a new ChatGPT portal for users aged 13 to 17, featuring study tools, parental safeguards and tighter content filters. The rollout follows a family’s call for stronger AI safety after Sophie Rottenberg, who had confided suicidal thoughts to a ChatGPT-based chatbot named “Harry” for months, died by suicide in February 2025, prompting her parents to urge stricter safeguards and regulation of AI mental-health applications, NPR reported.

Actors

Sophie Rottenberg Laura Reiley OpenAI Holly Wilcox Gaby Raila Vaile Wright American Psychological Association Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Bipartisan Policy Center

Locations

Ithaca, New York, United States San Francisco, California, United States Baltimore, Maryland, United States Washington, DC, United States

Articles

August 18, 2026
4 total
OpenAI introduces ChatGPT for Teens with enhanced safety features
OpenAI introduces ChatGPT for Teens with enhanced safety features

The Guardian • 18 Aug 15:28

OpenAI launched a version of ChatGPT aimed at users aged 13 to 17, adding stricter content filters and parental controls to address concerns about teen use of AI.

Credibility 72% Manip. 9% Center
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens with study mode and parental controls
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens with study mode and parental controls

Fox Business • 18 Aug 12:48

OpenAI announced a new ChatGPT portal for users aged 13 to 17 that includes study tools, parental safeguards and content filters aimed at promoting safe and responsible use.

Credibility 72% Manip. 12% Center
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens with added safety features amid lawsuits
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens with added safety features amid lawsuits

CNN • 18 Aug 11:00

OpenAI introduced a teen-focused version of ChatGPT that includes time-limit nudges, quiet and study hours, and age-verification safeguards, as the company faces multiple legal actions alleging the chatbot contributed to youth harm.

Credibility 72% Manip. 12% Center
Family of New York woman who used AI chatbot for therapy urges stricter safeguards after her suicide
Family of New York woman who used AI chatbot for therapy urges stricter safeguards after her suicide

NPR • 18 Aug 09:00

Sophie Rottenberg confided her suicidal thoughts to a ChatGPT-based chatbot named “Harry” for months before dying by suicide in February 2025, prompting her parents to call for stronger safety measures and regulation of AI mental-health tools.

Credibility 78% Manip. 10% Center

Related events