# OpenAI — Introducing the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2026-09-18T12:00:00+00:00
- Category: safety-policy-update
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://openai.com/index/australian-youth-safety-blueprint
- Record: https://forck.live/items/12291-introducing-the-australian-youth-safety-blueprint
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI introduced the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint, a roadmap for protecting young people using AI, outlining six pillars including AI literacy, age-appropriate safeguards, privacy-protective age assurance, crisis support connections, and parental controls. The company began rolling out ChatGPT for Teens in Australia in August, a default experience for users aged 13 to 17 with updated safeguards designed around their developmental needs.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/australian-youth-safety-blueprint:

> The Blueprint sets out six pillars, from AI literacy and age-appropriate safeguards to privacy-protective age assurance, connections to real-world crisis support, and accessible parental controls. Together, they help define how responsible AI should work for teens, and how companies should be held accountable for identifying and addressing risks to young people.

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