Introducing ChatGPT for Teens: Built for learning, backed by protections

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 our Teen 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.