OpenAI said it is releasing a set of prompts to help developers make their apps safer for teens. The AI lab said the set of safety rules can be used with its open-source weights model, known as gpt-oss-safeguard.
OpenAI said it is releasing a set of prompts to help developers make their apps safer for teens. The AI lab said the set of safety rules can be used with its open-source weights model, known as gpt-oss-safeguard.
Instead of having to reinvent the wheel to make AI safer for teens, developers can use these prompts to protect their products. They cover issues like graphic violence and sexual content, harmful beauty ideals and behaviors, dangerous activities and challenges, romantic or violent role-playing games, and age-restricted goods and services, TechCrunch reports .
These security policies are designed in a prompt format, making them easily compatible with models other than gpt-oss-safeguard , although they are probably most effective in the OpenAI ecosystem.
To write these prompts, OpenAI collaborated with AI safety organizations Common Sense Media and everyone.ai.
“These prompt-based policies help establish a strong baseline of security across the ecosystem, and because they are released as open source, they can be adapted and improved over time,” Robbie Torney, head of AI and digital assessments at Common Sense Media, said in a statement.
In its blog, OpenAI noted that developers, including experienced teams, often find it difficult to translate general security goals into clear operational rules.
OpenAI acknowledges that these policies are not a definitive solution to the complex challenges of AI safety. However, they build on the company’s previous work, including product-level safety tools like parental controls and age prediction. Last year, OpenAI updated the guidelines for its large language models (known as Model Spec) to specify how AI should interact with users under the age of 18.
Despite AI's less than stellar reputation for security, these steps are a positive development, particularly for independent developers.
