我们正式推出 ChatGPT 青少年版（ChatGPT for Teens），这是一套旨在帮助青少年学习、批判性思考、加深理解并自信使用 AI 的体验方案。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，以及为家长提供的额外管控措施。如果我们的系统估算用户未满 18 岁，或者用户自报年龄在 13 至 17 岁之间，系统会自动将其纳入 ChatGPT 青少年版。
此次发布建立在我们为支持平台青少年用户所开展的基础工作之上，包括：推出家长管控功能、更新《18 岁以下用户模型规范》、制定《青少年安全蓝图》、上线年龄预测功能，并扩展支持青少年学习和健康使用 AI 的功能。在这些工作中，我们始终遵循四项承诺：将青少年安全放在首位、鼓励现实世界中的支持、以对待青少年的方式对待青少年，以及公开透明地说明我们的系统应如何运作。在 ChatGPT 青少年版中，我们进一步强化并深化了这些承诺，重点聚焦学习支持和更强的内置保护。
专为支持学习而打造
我们相信 AI 应当拓展教育机会，因此我们将 ChatGPT 青少年版设计为在课堂之外、无法随时获得帮助的时刻提供支持，同时让青少年保持积极主动、协作式的学习过程。例如，一名备考的青少年可以让 ChatGPT 解释一个不熟悉的概念、逐步完成一道练习题，并检验自己的理解程度。如果他们要求直接给出答案，ChatGPT 青少年版会引导他们通过步骤和问题自行解决问题。该体验整合了以下功能：
- 学习模式（Study Mode），通过引导式提问和分步支持帮助青少年理解学习内容。
- 全新的负责任作业提醒功能，能够识别青少年试图走捷径完成作业的情况，并将其引导至学习模式，进行分步协作式问题解决。
- 测验与学习可视化功能，为青少年提供更多练习、检验所学知识的方式，并更清晰地呈现复杂概念，以检验理解程度。
- 而借助全新的“学习时段”（Study Hours）功能，青少年或家长可以选择在默认开启“学习模式”（Study Mode）的时间段，从而更容易将更好的学习习惯融入日常作息。
“并非每个学生在家都能有人在他们遇到困难或作业有疑问时提供帮助。在恰当的护栏（guardrails）保障下，AI 可以帮助填补这一空白。像‘负责任作业提醒’（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、建立信心并持续学习——而不是简单地把答案递给他们。这种个性化的支持，对于那些渴望成功却往往不知如何前进的学生来说，可以带来实实在在的改变。”
拉克尔·吉布森（Racquel Gibson），佛罗里达州迈阿密市高中数学教师
当我们推出“学习模式”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长期积累的研究成果。该模式运用引导性问题、支架式教学（scaffolding）、元认知提示（metacognitive prompts）和知识检查，帮助学生一步步解决问题，而不是直接获得答案。这一设计与更广泛的有效学习技巧研究相一致，表明主动回忆和自我解释比单纯的被动复习更能促进深入理解和长期记忆保持。我们自己对“学习模式”等工具的早期评估也显示，学生的学业表现有了可喜的提升。
AI 应该支持学习，而不是走捷径，并且教育工作者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，而 ChatGPT for Teachers 则继续为教育工作者和学区提供安全、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，帮助青少年做好准备
为了帮助培养第一代AI学生，OpenAI与CodeAI宣布建立一项标志性合作，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。这项合作将聚焦于围绕该技术的教育：帮助青少年理解AI如何运作、如何引导它、质疑它，并借助它进行创作——同时让教师在塑造AI进入课堂的方式中发挥重要作用。
“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，并知道什么时候该停止信任它。给了他们这个基础，AI就不再是塑造他们未来的力量，而是他们可以质疑、塑造并自行创造的东西。”
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，还用于构建工具、自学新技能，以及解决社区中的问题。这些正是ChatGPT for Teens旨在培养的那类用途：强大、以学习为中心的AI，帮助年轻人从理解概念走向应用概念。
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困在废墟下的幸存者。这个项目源于他们与当地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从哪里搜起。对这个团队来说，AI帮助他们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面向急救人员设计的工具的过程。得克萨斯州的Crystal Yang使用ChatGPT帮助开发和扩展了Audemy，这是一个为视障学生创建音频教育游戏的平台，目前已发展到20万用户和50款游戏。
虽然每位青少年使用ChatGPT的方式不同，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、在指导下构建，以及将新技能应用于实际问题。青少年应该能够借助强大、适龄且内置明确安全防护的工具来探索这种潜力。
更强的保护措施，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 青少年版会应用适龄的安全保障，旨在减少接触可能有害或不利于成长发育的内容，同时保留学习、创造和探索的能力。
这些保护措施基于我们模型规范中的《18 岁以下用户原则》，该原则参考了发展科学和专家指导意见。在实践中，这意味着在自残、暴力、饮食失调、危险活动以及露骨色情或暴力内容等高风险领域，会采取适龄的模型保护和产品干预措施。
这项工作也建立在我们此前推出的、带有家长控制和通知功能的家庭工具基础之上。关联了青少年账号的家长可以设置“静默时段”、管理部分设置，并在有限的高风险情况下接收安全通知。我们正在新增与饮食失调相关的通知，同时限制共享内容，并重点关注线下支持可能最为关键的时机。
强化现实世界支持，防止情感依赖
我们设计 ChatGPT 青少年版的目的在于支持现实世界中的人际关系和健康习惯，包括提供休息提醒以鼓励青少年暂时离开，以及通过产品提示始终标明 ChatGPT 是 AI。
我们正在持续强化 ChatGPT 针对 18 岁以下用户的适龄行为。我们更新后的 18 岁以下用户模型规范不仅限于阻止浪漫或性化角色扮演：ChatGPT 不应使用浪漫语言、鼓励情感依赖，或暗示自己拥有感情或意识。这些更强的保护措施旨在强化健康的现实世界人际关系。
支持健康、均衡的使用
我们还在增加旨在降低情境风险、引导青少年使用有用工具和保护措施的提示与控制功能，包括：
- 正如我们上个月宣布的，现在在长时间使用过程中，我们会更频繁地向青少年弹出提示，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。
- 面向青少年的专属引导流程，从一开始就向他们介绍可用的学习与安全功能。
- 而简单的个性化选项，如强调色和语音变体，有助于让体验更具个人感，同时又不模糊实用工具与真实人际关系之间的界限。
面向青少年安全使用 AI 的持续研究
这些保护措施以持续的安全研究为支撑，该研究基于发展科学、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机制。这项工作帮助我们完善针对 18 岁以下用户的政策，强化产品保护，并改进我们衡量长期进展的方式。
我们开始逐步公开分享更多相关工作，首先是在系统卡中新增的面向 18 岁以下用户的评估，展示我们的模型在具有挑战性的敏感内容案例中，针对青少年特定标准的表现。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
我们将继续打造更多功能，让青少年能够受益于 AI，同时衡量并公开我们的学习成果。青少年应当能够使用 AI 来学习、创造和探索。但这种使用应当伴随反映其发展阶段、强化现实人际关系并支持长期健康使用的保护措施。ChatGPT for Teens 是我们朝着这一标准迈进的下一个步骤。
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.