OpenAI Japan announces Japan Teen Safety Blueprint to put teen safety first

OpenAI Japan announced the Japan Teen Safety Blueprint announced a new framework named the Japan Teen Safety Blueprint to help teens use generative AI safely.

Age estimation will apply privacy-conscious, risk-based age estimation and provide appeals processes, openAI will apply privacy-conscious, risk-based age estimation and offer appeals when determinations are incorrect.

Safety policies will strengthen safety policies for users under 18 to restrict self-harm, sexual or violent content, dangerous behavior, and harmful body image, openAI will strengthen protections to prevent AI from depicting or encouraging self-harm, explicit sexual or violent content, dangerous behavior, or harmful body image for users under 18.

Parental controls will expand parental control tools such as account linking, settings controls, usage-time management, and alerts, openAI will expand tools including account linking, privacy and settings controls, usage-time management, and alerting.

Research collaboration will collaborate with clinicians, researchers, educators, and child safety experts on feature improvement and research, openAI will collaborate with clinicians, researchers, educators, and child safety experts to improve features and research AI's impact on teen mental health.