If you’re worried that using AI chatbots could negatively affect your children, it’ll be heartening to learn that ChatGPT has a suite of parental controls. They’re not hugely comprehensive but they’re certainly a step in the right direction.

The controls are primarily aimed at 13 to 18-year-olds. You’re not actually permitted to have an account with ChatGPT if you’re not a teenager or adult. If you have children younger than that, you should be steering them away from having an account in the first instance.

OpenAI is currently looking at using an age-prediction system that will determine if someone is under 18, automatically moving them to a safer AI system. Until then, we have to make decisions ourselves and even if the system kicks-in, it’s always a good idea to have an oversight. Let

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