Why My Conversations With ‘ChatGPT for Teens’ Made Me Very Worried

October 12, 2026

(NYT) – A new mode includes a study tool, but it still does a user’s homework. And a children’s safety nonprofit says the chatbot flunked its tests.

After OpenAI set me up with a ChatGPT for Teens account last week, I began pasting in homework assignments provided to me by several high school teachers…

…My experiment left me worried for youths who have been gaining access to the tool in recent weeks. I liked the part of the study tool that walked me through solving a problem step by step. But I wouldn’t hire a human tutor who offered to give my child homework answers at the beginning of a study session. Why wouldn’t most teenagers simply choose to get the answers? And what else might a troubled teenager say that fails to raise red flags? (Read More)