Archive · 3 Sep 2025
OpenAI Adds Parental Controls and GPT-5 for Safety
OpenAI is making ChatGPT safer.
They are adding parental controls so parents can manage their kids' accounts and get alerts if the AI detects distress.
This comes after a teen suicide case where the AI may have given harmful advice.
To prevent this, OpenAI will also use its more advanced AI model, GPT-5, to handle sensitive conversations better.
These changes follow concerns and a lawsuit regarding potential harm from its chatbot.
OpenAI is implementing parental controls for ChatGPT.
Parents can link accounts and manage age-appropriate settings.
Parents will receive alerts if the AI detects distress.
The move follows a wrongful death lawsuit.
OpenAI will route sensitive conversations to GPT-5.
- Who
- OpenAI
- What
- Announcing new parental controls and safety features for ChatGPT
- When
- Announced recently
- Where
- N/A
- Why
- In response to safety concerns and a lawsuit
The Raine Family's Lawyer
OpenAI
Effectiveness of New Measures
The Raine Family's Lawyer
The new safeguards are insufficient.
OpenAI
OpenAI is implementing parental controls and routing sensitive conversations to GPT-5 reasoning models to enhance safety.
Responsibility and Safety
The Raine Family's Lawyer
OpenAI should be held accountable for potential harms.
OpenAI
OpenAI is actively improving the safety features of its chatbot.
- Company
- OpenAI
- Product
- ChatGPT
- Action
- Introducing Parental Controls and Safety Updates
- Control Features
- Account Linking, Age-Appropriate Settings, Distress Alerts
- AI Model
- GPT-5
- Expert Input
- Expert Council on Well-Being
- Timeline
- Parental Controls in a month, GPT-5 routing in 4 months
Sources
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