---
type: "Evidence Item"
title: "Our approach to age prediction"
description: "ChatGPT is rolling out age prediction to estimate if accounts are under or over 18, applying safeguards for teens and refining accuracy over time."
resource: "https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-age-prediction"
tags: ["appendix-iii", "vendor", "openai"]
timestamp: "2026-01-20"
category: "vendor"
publisher: "OpenAI"
cope_score: 36
confidence: 0.9
---

# Our approach to age prediction

# Claim

ChatGPT is rolling out age prediction to estimate if accounts are under or over 18, applying safeguards for teens and refining accuracy over time.

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

# Related Concepts

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

# Citations

[1] [Our approach to age prediction](https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-age-prediction)