Audit rates ChatGPT for Teens an 'unacceptable risk'

Common Sense Media's Youth AI Safety Institute ran more than 4,000 test prompts against OpenAI's teen safety features. Suicide and self-harm conversations on test accounts never triggered a parental alert. The institute wants teens locked out until safety can be independently verified.

Why it matters: Parental alerts were the headline safeguard of OpenAI's teen offering, so a failure on the highest-stakes scenario undermines the core promise. Independent audits like this are becoming the de facto enforcement mechanism and could fuel regulatory pressure, which sits alongside the California AG's existing scrutiny of OpenAI.