OpenAI’s teen safety framework emphasizes balancing privacy, freedom, and protection for younger users. It treats conversations as deeply personal and deserving strong privacy, while granting adults more freedom with sensitive content. For teens, however, safety takes priority, with stricter safeguards such as blocking flirtatious or harmful topics and escalating serious risks like suicidal ideation. An age-prediction system and upcoming parental controls reinforce these protections, defaulting to teen rules when age is uncertain. This approach highlights the trade-offs between safeguarding youth, preserving privacy, and allowing freedom, offering an important case study for how AI platforms can responsibly serve diverse age groups.
In academic partnership with Virscend University, a WASC-accredited institution in Irvine, California.