我们推出 ChatGPT for Teens，这一体验旨在帮助青少年学习、批判性思考、加深理解，并自信地使用 AI。它为青少年提供了更强的内置安全保护，包括促进健康使用的功能以及面向家长的额外控制选项。如果我们的系统估计某人未满 18 岁，或他们自述年龄在 13 至 17 岁之间，他们会被自动纳入 ChatGPT for Teens。
此次发布建立在我们为支持平台上的青少年所做的基础工作之上，包括：推出家长控制、更新我们的18 岁以下模型规范、制定我们的青少年安全蓝图、推出年龄预测，以及扩展支持青少年学习和健康使用 AI 的功能。在这项工作中，我们始终遵循四项承诺：将青少年安全放在首位、鼓励现实世界的支持、把青少年当作青少年对待，以及对我们系统应如何表现保持透明。我们在 ChatGPT for Teens 中强化并进一步推进这些承诺，重点关注学习以及更强大的内置保护。
为支持学习而打造
我们相信 AI 应当拓展教育机会，这正是我们设计 ChatGPT for Teens 的原因——在课堂之外、帮助并非总能获得时提供支持，同时让青少年持续投入主动且协作的学习过程。例如，一个备考的青少年可以请 ChatGPT 解释一个陌生的概念、一起做一道练习题，并检验自己的理解。如果他们直接索要一个快速答案，ChatGPT for Teens 可以引导他们走向有助于自己独立解题的步骤和问题。这一体验汇集了：
- Study Mode（学习模式），它通过引导性提问和分步支持，帮助青少年理解学习材料。
- 全新的负责任作业提醒，它可以识别出青少年似乎试图走捷径完成作业的情况，并引导他们转向 Study Mode，进行分步协作式解题。
- 测验和 学习可视化，为青少年提供更多练习方式、检验自己掌握的知识，并更清晰地看清困难概念，以检验理解程度。
- 借助全新的 Study Hours（学习时段），青少年或家长可以选择让 Study Mode 默认开启的时间，从而更容易将更好的学习习惯变成日常惯例。
“并非每个学生在遇到作业难题或疑问时，家里都有人能帮忙。有了恰当的防护措施，AI 可以帮助填补这一空白。像 Responsible Homework Reminder 这样的工具可以一步步引导学生，帮助他们理解自己的错误、建立信心、持续学习——而不是直接给出答案。这种个性化的支持，能够为那些想要成功却并不总是知道该如何前进的学生带来切实的改变。”
Racquel Gibson，高中数学教师，佛罗里达州迈阿密
当我们推出Study Mode时，它是与教师、科学家和教育学专家共同打造的，并借鉴了学习科学领域的长期研究。它运用引导性问题、脚手架、元认知提示和知识检查，帮助学生一步步攻克问题，而不是直接获得答案。这一设计与关于有效学习技巧 的更广泛研究相一致，这些研究表明，主动检索和自我解释比单纯的被动复习更能支持更强的理解和更长期的记忆保持。我们自己对 Study Mode 等工具的早期评估也显示出学生表现的可喜提升。
AI 应当支持学习，而非走捷径，教育工作者也应始终掌控课堂中的 AI 体验。本着这一精神，ChatGPT for Teens 旨在支持课堂之外的学习，同时ChatGPT for Teachers继续为教育工作者和学区提供安全的、由机构管理的 AI 访问权限，以及用好 AI 的实用支持。
与 CodeAI 合作，为青少年做好准备
为了帮助培养第一代 AI 学生，OpenAI 与 CodeAI 宣布达成一项 标志性合作，为学生和教育工作者提供工具与资源，帮助他们学习如何使用 AI 并从中受益。该合作将聚焦于围绕这项技术的教育：帮助青少年理解 AI 如何运作、如何引导它、如何质疑它，以及如何用它进行创造——而教师将在塑造 AI 如何进入课堂方面发挥重要作用。
“每个学生都应该了解 AI 实际上是如何运作的，并且能够质疑这项技术、发现它的错误，并知道何时不再信任它。给他们这样的基础，AI 就不再是一股塑造他们未来的力量，而会成为他们可以质疑、塑造并自主创造的东西。”
Karim Meghji，CodeAI 首席执行官
青少年正在用 AI 构建什么
青少年已经在使用 AI，不仅用于学习，还用来构建工具、自学新技能，并着手解决他们所在社区的问题。这正是 ChatGPT for Teens 旨在促进的用途类型：以学习为中心、能力强大的 AI，帮助年轻人从理解想法走向实际应用。
在弗吉尼亚州，Rushil Kukreja、Arhan Menta 和 Nayel Rehman 开发了 WiFind ，这是一个搜救系统，利用现有的 Wi-Fi 信号帮助定位自然灾害后被埋在废墟下的幸存者。该项目源于他们在当地一家搜救组织的志愿工作，以及一个简单的问题：救援人员如何知道该先往哪里找。对这个团队来说，AI 帮助加快了从研究中学习、快速制作原型，以及将一个有前景的概念转化为专为一线救援人员设计的工具的过程。得克萨斯州的 Crystal Yang 使用 ChatGPT 帮助开发和扩展 Audemy ，这是一个为盲人学生创建音频教育游戏的平台，已扩展到 200,000 名用户和 50 款游戏。
虽然每个青少年使用 ChatGPT 的方式各不相同，但他们都指向了我们希望支持的那类用途：从复杂材料中学习、在指导下进行构建，以及将新技能应用于现实问题。青少年应当能够借助有能力、适龄且内置明确防护措施的工具来探索这种潜力。
更强大的保护，默认开启
对于青少年用户，保护措施是默认体验的一部分。对于 18 岁以下的用户，ChatGPT for Teens 会应用适龄防护措施，旨在减少接触可能有害或不符合其发展阶段的內容，同时保留学习、创作和探索的能力。
这些保护措施基于我们《模型规范》中的未满 18 岁原则，这些原则参考了发展科学以及专家的指导意见。在实践中，这意味着在自残、暴力、饮食失调、危险活动以及露骨性内容或血腥内容等高风险领域，提供与年龄相适应的模型保护和产品干预措施。
这项工作还建立在我们随家长控制与通知功能一同推出的家庭工具之上。已关联青少年账户的家长可以设置静默时段、管理部分设置，并在有限的高风险情形下收到安全通知。我们正在新增与饮食失调相关的通知，同时限制所分享的信息范围，并聚焦于线下支持可能最为关键的时刻。
强化现实世界中的支持，防止情感依赖
我们为青少年设计了 ChatGPT，以支持现实世界中的人际关系和健康习惯，包括鼓励青少年暂时离开的休息提醒，以及始终将 ChatGPT 标识为 AI 的产品提示。
我们正在继续加强 ChatGPT 对 18 岁以下用户的适龄行为。我们更新的 18 岁以下模型规范 不仅仅阻止浪漫或性化的角色扮演：ChatGPT 不应使用浪漫语言、鼓励情感依赖，或暗示它拥有情感或意识。这些更强的保护措施旨在巩固健康、现实世界中的人际关系。
支持健康、均衡的使用
我们还在添加一些提示和控制措施，旨在降低具体情境中的风险，并引导青少年使用有用的工具和保护功能，包括：
- 正如我们上个月所宣布的，我们现在会在青少年长时间使用时更频繁地弹出提示，旨在鼓励他们暂停并离开，同时提醒他们正在与 AI 互动。
- 敏感图片上传提醒会告诫青少年不要分享私密或敏感图片。
- 专为青少年设计的引导流程从一开始就向他们介绍可用的学习与安全功能。
- 而简单的自定义选项，比如强调色和语音变体，有助于让体验更具个性化，同时不会模糊有用工具与人类关系之间的界限。
面向青少年安全使用 AI 的持续研究
这些保护措施以持续开展的安全研究为支撑，这些研究参考了发展科学、专家意见，并在青少年可能面临独特或更高风险的领域测试我们模型的防护措施。这项工作帮助我们完善针对 18 岁以下用户的政策，加强产品保护，并改进我们长期衡量进展的方式。
我们开始更多地公开分享这项工作，首先是我们已加入系统卡的新增 18 岁以下评估，这些评估展示了我们的模型在具有挑战性的敏感内容场景中，对照青少年专属标准的表现。这些评估涵盖自残、饮食失调、暴力、年龄限制商品与服务以及性内容等领域，旨在帮助加深对模型在青少年安全方面表现的理解。
展望未来
我们将继续构建更多功能，让青少年能够从 AI 中受益，并衡量和公布我们所了解到的情况。青少年应当能够使用 AI 来学习、创作和探索。但这种访问应当伴随与其发育阶段相称的保护措施，强化现实世界中的关系，并支持长期健康使用。ChatGPT for Teens 是我们朝着这一标准迈进的下一步。
We’re introducing ChatGPT for Teens, an experience designed to help teens learn, think critically, deepen understanding, and use AI with confidence. It provides stronger built-in safety protections for teens, including features to promote healthy use and additional controls for parents. If our system estimates someone is under 18 or they state their age is between 13 and 17, they are automatically placed into ChatGPT for Teens.
This launch builds on the foundational work to support teens on our platform including: Introducing Parental Controls, updating our Under-18 Model Spec, creating ourTeen Safety Blueprint, rolling out Age-Prediction and expanding features to support learning and healthy AI use for teens. Across that work, we have been guided by four commitments: put teen safety first, encourage real-world support, treat teens like teens, and be transparent about how our systems should behave. We’re reinforcing and furthering those commitments in ChatGPT for Teens with a focus on learning and even stronger built-in protections.
Built to support learning
We believe AI should expand educational opportunity, which is why we designed ChatGPT for Teens to support moments outside the classroom when help is not always available, while keeping teens engaged in an active and collaborative learning process. A teen studying for a test, for example, can ask ChatGPT to explain an unfamiliar concept, work through a practice problem, and check their understanding. If they ask for a quick answer, ChatGPT for Teens can guide them toward the steps and questions that help them work through it themselves. The experience brings together:
- Study Mode, which uses guiding questions and step-by-step support to help teens understand the material.
- New responsible homework reminders, which can recognize when a teen appears to be trying to shortcut an assignment and redirect them toward Study Mode for step-by-step collaborative problem solving.
- Quizzes and Learning Visualizations which give teens more ways to practice, test what they know, and see difficult concepts more clearly to test understanding.
- And with new Study Hours, teens or parents can choose times when Study Mode is on by default, making it easier to turn better study habits into a routine.
“Not every student has someone at home who can help when they get stuck or have questions with their homework. With the right guardrails, AI can help fill that gap. Tools like Responsible Homework Reminder can guide students step by step, helping them understand their mistakes, build confidence, and keep learning—not simply hand them an answer. That kind of individualized support can make a meaningful difference for students who want to succeed but don’t always know how to move forward.”
Racquel Gibson, high school math teacher, Miami, FL
When we introduced Study Mode, it was built with teachers, scientists, and pedagogy experts and drew on longstanding research in learning science. It uses guiding questions, scaffolding, metacognitive prompts, and knowledge checks to help students work through problems step by step instead of simply receiving a solution. That design is consistent with broader research on effective learning techniques showing that active retrieval and self-explanation can support stronger comprehension and longer-term retention than passive review alone. Our own early evaluation of tools like Study Mode has also shown promising gains in student performance.
AI should support learning, not shortcut it, and educators should remain in control of AI experiences in classrooms. In this spirit, ChatGPT for Teens is designed to support learning outside of the classroom while ChatGPT for Teachers continues to provide educators and school districts with secure, institution-managed access to AI and practical support for using it well.
Partnering with CodeAI to prepare teens
To help prepare the first AI generation of students, OpenAI and CodeAI are announcing a signature partnership to give students and educators access to tools and resources that will help them learn how to use and benefit from AI. The partnership will focus on the education that surrounds the technology: helping teens understand how AI works, direct it, question it, and create with it—with teachers playing a meaningful role in shaping how AI enters the classroom.
“Every student should know how AI actually works and be able to question the technology, catch its mistakes, and know when to stop trusting it. Give them that foundation, and AI becomes less a force shaping their future and instead something they can question, shape, and create on their own.”
Karim Meghji, CEO of CodeAI
What teens are building with AI
Teens are already using AI not only to study, but to build tools, teach themselves new skills, and work on problems in their communities. Those are the kinds of uses ChatGPT for Teens is meant to foster: capable, learning-centered AI that helps young people move from understanding ideas to applying them.
In Virginia, Rushil Kukreja, Arhan Menta, and Nayel Rehman developed WiFind , a search-and-rescue system that uses existing Wi-Fi signals to help locate survivors trapped beneath rubble after natural disasters. The project grew out of volunteer work with a local search-and-rescue organization and a simple question about how responders could know where to look first. For the team, AI helped speed up the work of learning from research, prototyping quickly, and turning a promising concept into a tool designed for first responders. Crystal Yang in Texas used ChatGPT to help develop and scale Audemy , a platform that creates audio-based educational games for blind students, to 200,000 users and 50 games.
While each teen used ChatGPT in different ways, they all point to the kinds of uses we want to support: learning from complex material, building with guidance, and applying new skills to real problems. Teens should be able to explore that potential with tools that are capable, age-appropriate, and designed with clear safeguards.
Stronger protections, on by def ault
For teen users, protections are part of the default experience. For users under 18, ChatGPT for Teens applies age-appropriate safeguards designed to reduce exposure to content that may be harmful or developmentally inappropriate, while preserving the ability to learn, create, and explore.
These protections are based on our Under-18 Principles in our Model Spec, which are informed by developmental science and guidance from experts. In practice, that means age-appropriate model protections and product interventions in higher-risk areas such as self-harm, violence, eating disorders, dangerous activities, and explicit sexual or graphic content.
This work also builds on the family tools we introduced with parental controls and notifications. Parents with linked teen accounts can set Quiet Hours, manage selected settings, and receive safety notifications in limited high-risk situations. We are adding additional notifications related to eating disorders, while limiting what is shared and focusing on moments when offline support may matter most.
Reinforcing real-world support and preventing emotional dependence
We designed ChatGPT for Teens to support real-world relationships and healthy habits, with break reminders that encourage teens to step away, and product cues that consistently identify ChatGPT as AI.
We’re continuing to strengthen ChatGPT’s age-appropriate behavior for users under 18. Our updated under-18 model spec goes beyond blocking romantic or sexualized roleplay: ChatGPT should not use romantic language, encourage emotional dependence, or imply that it has feelings or consciousness. These stronger protections are designed to reinforce healthy, real-world relationships.
Supporting healthy, balanced use
We are also adding cues and controls that are meant to reduce risk in context and point teens toward useful tools and protections, including:
- As we announced last month, we now have more frequent prompts for teens during extended use, designed to encourage them to pause and step away, and reminding them that they are interacting with AI.
- Sensitive-image upload reminders caution teens against sharing private or sensitive images.
- Teen-specific onboarding introduces the learning and safety features available to them from the start.
- And simple customization options, like accent colors and voice variations, help make the experience feel personal without blurring the line between a useful tool and a human relationship.
Ongoing research for safe AI use by teens
These protections are underpinned by ongoing safety research informed by developmental science, expert input, and testing our models’ safeguards in areas where teens may face distinct or heightened risks. This work helps us refine our policies for under-18 users, strengthen product protections, and improve how we measure progress over time.
We are beginning to share more of this work publicly, starting with new under 18 evaluations we’ve added to our system cards that show how our models perform against teen-specific standards in challenging sensitive-content cases. These evaluations cover areas such as self-harm, eating disorders, violence, age-restricted goods and services, and sexual content, and are designed to help advance understanding of model performance on teen safety.
Looking ahead
We will continue to build additional features in order for teens to benefit from AI and measure and publish what we are learning. Teens should be able to use AI to learn, create, and explore. But that access should come with protections that reflect their developmental stage, reinforce real-world relationships, and support healthy use over time. ChatGPT for Teens is our next step in building toward that standard.