# OpenAI Publishes a Six-Pillar Youth Safety Plan for Australia as Regulators Set AI Rules

The blueprint covers age assurance, parental controls and crisis referral, and follows an August rollout of a separate ChatGPT experience for Australian users aged 13 to 17.

- Published: 2026-09-19T06:16:00.678Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-09-19/openai-publishes-a-six-pillar-youth-safety-plan-for-australi
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: world
- Sources: [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/australian-youth-safety-blueprint), [OpenAI (EMEA blueprint)](https://openai.com/index/advancing-youth-safety-in-emea/), [EdTech Innovation Hub](https://www.edtechinnovationhub.com/news/openai-unveils-five-pillar-youth-safety-blueprint-for-ai-chatbots-and-backs-it-with-500000-in-emea-grants)

OpenAI released an Australian Youth Safety Blueprint, a six-part framework covering AI literacy, age-appropriate safeguards, privacy-protective age assurance, routes to real-world crisis support and parental controls. The company frames it…

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