09/16/2025
ATTENTION PARENTS
Share if you want to get info to those who care: Upcoming controls let parents link accounts, set age-appropriate behavior rules, disable chat history, and receive alerts when the system detects a teen in acute distress. The move follows suicides linked to ChatGPT interactions, including the deaths of teenager Adam Raine and Stein-Erik Soelberg, and a wrongful-death lawsuit filed against OpenAI.
OpenAI said Tuesday it plans to route sensitive conversations to reasoning models like GPT-5 and roll out parental controls within the next month – part of an ongoing response to recent safety incidents involving ChatGPT failing to detect mental distress.