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  "id": 12645398,
  "title": "US non-profit urges OpenAI to keep teens off ChatGPT: Report",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/us-non-profit-urges-openai-to-keep-teens-off-chatgpt-report",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-07T14:27:28.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Economic Times Tech",
    "slug": "economic-times-tech",
    "url": "https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/us-non-profit-urges-openai-to-keep-teens-off-chatgpt-report/articleshow/134768526.cms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Common Sense Media, a San Francisco-based nonprofit focused on evaluating media and technology for family safety, has urged OpenAI to prevent teenagers from using ChatGPT. The organization's Youth AI Safety Institute conducted tests on accounts registered to users aged 13 to 17 and discovered gaps in safeguards designed to protect younger users. While the new teen version of ChatGPT, introduced in August, claimed to have stronger safeguards and monitoring, it failed to recognize when a teen needed outside help, missing multiple cases of crisis referrals. OpenAI's modified parameters automatically deploy for users aged 13 to 17 or detected as underage. The institute's head, Tom Siegel, commented that the chatbot is not safe for kids to use and suggested that parents should discuss the risks of the technology with their teens.",
  "summary": "The group's Youth AI Safety Institute ran more than 4,000 prompts on accounts registered to users aged 13 to 17, and found that the bot did not provide instructions facilitating suicide, self-harm, eating disorders, or sexual or romantic roleplay, the report said. However, it failed to recognise when a teen needed outside help, missing multiple cases where testers felt a crisis referral was…",
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    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "OpenAI's first report on teen ChatGPT use says teens spend under 15 minutes a day on average on the chatbot, with less than 2% using it for 3+ hours straight (Reuters)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/openais-first-report-on-teen-chatgpt-use-says-teens-spend-under-15",
        "published": "2026-10-07T16:30:19.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "TechCrunch",
        "title": "ChatGPT for Teens keeps teens talking, even during mental health crises",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/chatgpt-for-teens-keeps-teens-talking-even-during-mental-health-crises",
        "published": "2026-10-07T18:15:28.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}