"In a press release, OpenAI explained its Expert Council on Wellness and AI started taking form after OpenAI began informally consulting with experts on parental controls earlier this year. Now it's been formalized, bringing together eight "leading researchers and experts with decades of experience studying how technology affects our emotions, motivation, and mental health" to help steer ChatGPT updates."
"One priority was finding "several council members with backgrounds in understanding how to build technology that supports healthy youth development," OpenAI said, "because teens use ChatGPT differently than adults.""
"how AI intersects with child cognitive and emotional development."
OpenAI formalized an Expert Council on Wellness and AI composed of eight researchers to guide ChatGPT mental-health and youth-safety updates. The council grew from prior informal consultations on parental controls and centers on understanding how technology affects emotions, motivation, and mental health. Several members specialize in healthy youth development to address distinct teen usage patterns and prevent harms from prolonged conversations. Named members include researchers who study social media impacts on children and how AI intersects with child cognitive and emotional development. The council aims to inform safer conversation designs, better safeguards, and age-appropriate protections.
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