Overview
- The blueprint sets age-aware behavior for ChatGPT users under 18, with OpenAI stating it will place safety ahead of privacy and freedom for minors.
- Parental tools allow account linking to a teen’s profile, blackout hours, disabling of memory and chat history, and notifications if activity signals potential self-harm.
- Under-18 guardrails restrict content that depicts or enables self-harm, dangerous stunts, illegal substances, harmful body ideals, or graphic sexual or violent scenarios.
- OpenAI backs risk-based, privacy-protective age estimation that uses usage signals to distinguish teens from adults and defaults to protective settings when age is unclear.
- Citing research that 62% of Indian teens use shared devices, OpenAI is adapting safeguards and engaging educators and external advisers, releasing the plan days before the India AI Impact Summit 2026.