---
type: "Evidence Item"
title: "Helping developers build safer AI experiences for teens"
description: "OpenAI releases prompt-based teen safety policies for developers using gpt-oss-safeguard, helping moderate age-specific risks in AI systems."
resource: "https://openai.com/index/teen-safety-policies-gpt-oss-safeguard"
tags: ["appendix-iii", "vendor", "openai"]
timestamp: "2026-03-24"
category: "vendor"
publisher: "OpenAI"
cope_score: 36
confidence: 0.9
---

# Helping developers build safer AI experiences for teens

# Claim

OpenAI releases prompt-based teen safety policies for developers using gpt-oss-safeguard, helping moderate age-specific risks in AI systems.

# 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: Software engineering
* Capability: Vendor platform capability signal
* Cope score: 36
* Confidence: 0.9

# Related Concepts

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

# Citations

[1] [Helping developers build safer AI experiences for teens](https://openai.com/index/teen-safety-policies-gpt-oss-safeguard)