OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Teens, introducing a dedicated experience for users aged 13–17 with stronger safeguards, healthy-use features and parental controls.
Accounts are automatically placed into the teen experience when OpenAI’s systems estimate that a user is under 18, or when users identify themselves as being between 13 and 17.
The experience adds protections around graphic violence, sexual or romantic roleplay, self-harm, risky viral challenges, extreme dieting and body-shaming. It also includes prompts encouraging users to take breaks during extended sessions.
Parents can link their accounts to a teenager’s account and manage settings such as memory and chat history. OpenAI says parents may also receive narrowly designed notifications if its systems detect signs of acute distress, without providing access to all of a teenager’s private conversations.
The launch builds on OpenAI’s previous work on age prediction and its under-18 safety principles, with the company positioning the teen experience as a way to support learning, critical thinking and skills development while applying stronger protections for younger users.
