Introducing parental controls

OpenAI launched parental controls for all ChatGPT users on September 29, 2025, letting parents link with teen accounts and manage usage settings from their own account. Linked teen accounts get stronger content safeguards by default, and parents can set quiet hours, disable voice, memory, image generation, and opt out of model training. The key mechanism is the alert flow: suspected self-harm signals trigger human review, and acute distress leads to email, SMS, and push notifications to parents.

Why it matters: OpenAI rolled parental controls to all ChatGPT users and disclosed a concrete self-harm escalation flow: system detection, human review, then email/SMS/push alerts to parents. HKR-K and HKR-R are strong; this is a substantive safety product update, but not a model-level launch,so