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OpenAI commits $2 million to research on AI and children's safety
OpenAI has signed the Charter of Engagement for Safer AI for Children at the Paris Peace Forum and pledged $2 million to the research network under the Coalition for Children's Rights and Protection in the Age of AI. The money funds shared measurement tools so researchers can assess both the risks and the opportunities AI creates for young people.
OpenAI said on November 12 that it signed the Charter of Engagement for Safer AI for Children at the Paris Peace Forum this week and committed $2 million to support the scientific research network under the Coalition for Children's Rights and Protection in the Age of AI.
The contribution is aimed at measurement rather than product. OpenAI says the funding supports shared work to build tools researchers can use to better understand and measure AI's risks and opportunities for children, which in turn should inform safer products and better policy.
The charter sets out shared principles for safe, age-appropriate AI, alongside a research programme and safeguards for its independence. Research teams retain control over their conclusions, and findings will be published even when they are negative or inconclusive, according to OpenAI.
The pledge builds on the company's earlier call for global standards on youth AI safety. OpenAI restated its support for comprehensive legislation that pairs enforceable protections with continued access to tools for learning and creativity, including age-appropriate safeguards on by default, parental controls, regular risk assessments and mitigation, and meaningful accountability.
The practical significance lies in who gets to define risk. Debate over minors and AI has repeatedly stalled on the absence of common metrics: platforms publish their own numbers, researchers cannot compare them, and legislators lack verifiable evidence. Bankrolling an independent research network is an attempt to build that public evidence base before the rules are written.
OpenAI also said it looks forward to engaging with European policymakers as the EU Kids Act develops, which suggests the charter and its research programme are meant to be citable material in Brussels and Washington alike.
Two things are worth watching: where the money actually goes and in what form the measurement tools are released, and whether the promise to publish inconvenient findings survives contact with the company's own commercial interests. For a firm that is simultaneously a model provider and a policy advocate, that is the real test.
Why it matters
OpenAI is positioning itself as a supplier of evidence ahead of youth-safety legislation in the US and EU. If the tools are genuinely open, they could also give outside researchers a shared yardstick the field currently lacks.
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