September 2, 2025:
OpenAI Enhances Safety with GPT-5 & Parental Controls - OpenAI plans to route sensitive conversations to reasoning models like GPT-5 and introduce parental controls after safety incidents where ChatGPT failed to detect mental distress. Parental controls will involve age-appropriate rules and distress notifications. In response to a wrongful death lawsuit, OpenAI commits to a 120-day initiative with experts to enhance AI safeguards.
Jay Edelson, representing the Raine family, criticizes OpenAI's response as inadequate. The company aims to address flaws in model design, such as the tendency to validate harmful conversation threads.
