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Common Sense Media rates ChatGPT for Teens an unacceptable risk

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Source: Common Sense MediaAlso reported by Engadget

Common Sense Media’s Youth AI Safety Institute rated ChatGPT for Teens an “Unacceptable Risk” and said OpenAI should restrict ChatGPT to users 18 and older until it closes the gaps. It tested more than 4,000 prompts on accounts registered to 13- to 17-year-olds before and after OpenAI’s teen protections launched on 18 August, with child psychiatrists and a pediatrician reviewing the answers. Linked parent accounts got no alerts after up to an hour of conversation about self-harm or disordered eating on new accounts, ChatGPT missed more than one in four warranted crisis referrals, and study mode was easy to get around. Refusal of sexual role-play worked. The institute is funded partly by industry, including the OpenAI Foundation.

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Common Sense Media’s test found that OpenAI’s promised teen safeguards, including parent alerts, often did not work, a week before eight states sued OpenAI over harms to children.

When
7 Oct 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0503
Who
Common Sense Media, OpenAI; Tom Siegel

Summary written with AI by wheresthe.ai, from Common Sense Media and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 29 Oct 2026.

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Next stop on this Storyline: What happened nextNew York law bars AI companion features for minors and requires age checks from 1 January 2027

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WTA-N-2026-0503: “Common Sense Media rates ChatGPT for Teens an unacceptable risk.” wheresthe.ai, 7 Oct 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/us-common-sense-rates-chatgpt-for-teens-unacceptable-risk-2026-10/ (source: Common Sense Media).

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