OpenAI Shares New Safeguard Plans to Protect Teenagers and Users Facing Emotional Distress

OpenAI has shared plans to better protect ChatGPT users facing emotional distress, as well as teenagers interacting with its artificial intelligence (AI) models, on Tuesday. The San Francisco-based AI firm highlighted that it has started partnering with experts and including measures within the platform to assist and guide users in a sensitive moment. The company plans to make significant progress within the next 120 days. OpenAI highlighted that its reasoning-focused models, such as GPT-5 and o3, have been trained with a "deliberative alignment" technique, which allows it to consistently follow and apply safety guidelines.