OpenAI and APA launch youth mental health partnership

OpenAI and the American Psychological Association (APA) are starting a three-year partnership to develop guidance, resources, and safeguards for using AI in ways that support youth mental health.

Why it matters: This follows a string of incidents and lawsuits tying chatbot use to harm in teens, so a formal partnership with a major clinical body is OpenAI's most concrete move yet to build external, credentialed guardrails around that use case rather than handling it unilaterally.