OpenAI's Teen Safety Policy Pack

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We’re releasing prompt-based safety policies to help developers create age-appropriate protections for teens.

Find the policies on OpenAI's GitHub: https://github.com/openai/teen-safety-policy-pack

While safety classifiers like gpt-oss-safeguard can detect harmful content, they depend on clear definitions of what that content is. In practice, one of the biggest challenges developers face is defining policies that accurately capture teen-specific risks and can be consistently applied in real systems.

To address this challenge, we are releasing a set of safety policies on OpenAI’s GitHub, tailored to common risks faced by teens and informed by careful review of existing research about teens’ unique developmental differences. These policies are structured as prompts that can be directly used with gpt-oss-safeguard and other reasoning models, enabling developers to more easily apply consistent safety standards across their systems.
The initial release includes policies covering:

• Graphic violent content
• Graphic sexual content
• Harmful body ideals and behaviors
• Dangerous activities and challenges
• Romantic or violent roleplay
• Age-restricted goods and services

These policies can be used for real-time content filtering, as well as offline analysis of user-generated content.