# OpenAI — Helping people when they need it most

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2025-08-26T04:00:00+00:00
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Source: https://openai.com/index/helping-people-when-they-need-it-most
- Record: https://forck.live/items/487-helping-people-when-they-need-it-most

OpenAI discusses its approach to safety for users in mental or emotional distress, acknowledges current system limitations, and describes ongoing work to improve.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/helping-people-when-they-need-it-most:

> How we think about safety for users experiencing mental or emotional distress, the limits of today’s systems, and the work underway to refine them.

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