Overview

• Within a month, parents will be able to link their accounts to their teenager’s ChatGPT account and set behavior rules for responses.
• OpenAI says parents will receive alerts when the system detects signs of “acute distress” in a child’s conversations.
• Families will gain tools to manage adolescent account settings, including controls over how the model replies to minors.
• Within 120 days, certain sensitive conversations will be routed to more advanced reasoning models such as GPT-5-thinking.
• OpenAI says these reasoning models apply safety instructions more consistently, building on its late-August pledge to add parental controls.