---
type: "Evidence Item"
title: "An update on our mental health-related work"
description: "OpenAI shares updates on its mental health safety work, including parental controls, trusted contacts, improved distress detection, and recent litigation developments."
resource: "https://openai.com/index/update-on-mental-health-related-work"
tags: ["appendix-iii", "vendor", "openai"]
timestamp: "2026-02-27"
category: "vendor"
publisher: "OpenAI"
cope_score: 36
confidence: 0.9
---

# An update on our mental health-related work

# Claim

OpenAI shares updates on its mental health safety work, including parental controls, trusted contacts, improved distress detection, and recent litigation developments.

# Relevance

Appendix III, section two: vendor threshold and platform capability evidence

# Oracle Verdict

This is a low-signal vendor radar item. Keep it as context only unless a later benchmark, deployment, procurement change, or labour-market datapoint turns it into direct Appendix III evidence.

# Metadata

* Publisher: OpenAI
* Category: vendor
* Sector: Healthcare and life sciences
* Capability: Healthcare and life-sciences reasoning
* Cope score: 36
* Confidence: 0.9

# Related Concepts

* [Live evidence index](index.md)
* [Thesis](../thesis.md)

# Citations

[1] [An update on our mental health-related work](https://openai.com/index/update-on-mental-health-related-work)