OpenAI Acknowledges the Teen Problem

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman promises that parental controls and age verification are coming to ChatGPT--though the announcement is scant on specifics. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. On Tuesday afternoon, three parents sat in a row before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism. Two of them had each recently lost a child to suicide; the third has a teenage son who, after cutting his arm in front of her and biting her, is undergoing residential treatment. All three blame generative AI for what has happened to their children.