OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Safety Features With Focus on Mental Health and Teen Protection
OpenAI is working to make ChatGPT helpful for users in their most difficult moments by continually improving its models. This time, the target is on improving models to recognize and respond to signs of mental and emotional distress.
Last week, OpenAI shared four main focus areas for helping people at times of need
- Expanding interventions to more people in crisis.
- Making it easier to reach emergency services and get help from experts
- Enabling connections to trusted contacts.
- Enlightening protection for teens.
OpenAI is partnering with experts on well-being and mental health to guide the work.
As part of a 120-day initiative, OpenAI will be working together with its Expert Council on Well-Being and AI and its Global Physical Network.
OpenAI also aims at strengthening protection for teens, because young people are the most frequent users of AI for support, learning and creativity.
Within the next month, OpenAI will be rolling out a new feature for parents to link their account with their teen's account (minimum age 13) through email invitation. This feature will allow parents to control by default how ChatGPT responds to their teen, manage features for their teen, and receive notifications whenever the system detects acute distress from their teen.
While this process is still in its early stages, OpenAI has promised to share updates on its progress in the coming 120 days.
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