Common Sense Media’s Youth AI Safety Institute on October 7, 2026 rated ChatGPT for Teens an Unacceptable Risk for users under 18 and called on OpenAI to restrict ChatGPT to adults until the teen safety and learning protections it announced in August work as described and are verified by independent testing. In a press release published alongside a full risk assessment, the Institute said it ran more than 4,000 prompts before and after the teen experience launched and found that some…