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OpenAI publishes an Australian Youth Safety Blueprint with six pillars for teen AI use

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Source: OpenAI

OpenAI published a blueprint it calls a roadmap for protecting young people as they use AI and a contribution to Australian policy. It sets out six pillars, including AI literacy, age-appropriate safeguards, privacy-protective age assurance, connections to real-world crisis support and accessible parental controls, and says companies, not young people or their families, should build protections in from the start. It points to ChatGPT for Teens, rolled out in Australia in August as the default for users identified as aged 13 to 17, and to its parental controls and age assurance. No Australian agency or regulator is named.

Why it matters

A lab is publishing its own child-safety framework for one market while the eSafety Commissioner writes codes that will bind it.

When
18 Sep 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0267
Who
OpenAI

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from OpenAI. Checked against the source on 12 Oct 2026.

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Source copy: download the page text as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2026-0267: “OpenAI publishes an Australian Youth Safety Blueprint with six pillars for teen AI use.” wheresthe.ai, 18 Sep 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/openai-australian-youth-safety-blueprint-2026-09/ (source: OpenAI).

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