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Mark Laurence

Executive

Oct 15, 2026

15:56
Yeah, I'd love it.
15:57
Yeah, so the idea behind ChatGPT for teens is that anyone aged younger than 17 goes immediately into that account and they're meant to link their account to their parents' ChatGPT accounts.
16:14
And then if the teens are...
16:17
Talking with ChatGPT in any concerning ways, any sensitive topics, anything about self-harm, sexual topics, et cetera, it's meant to flag alerts on the parent's account.
16:29
But these testers, they did 4,000 tests, and some of them talked about self-harm for up to an hour, and then the parent alerts didn't go off.
16:38
So they said in up to one in four cases where they should have got flags, they didn't happen.
16:45
So that to me is, we're just going back to these tech labs, they ask for a whole lot of trust from us as the general public.
17:23
It was any kind of warning that worked would have blown the whistle on what these kids were up to.
1:41
Yeah, I'd love
1:42
it.
1:43
So the idea behind ChatGPT for teens is that anyone aged younger than 17 goes immediately into that account, and they're meant to link their account to their parents' ChatGPT accounts, and then if the teens are Talking with ChatGPT in any concerning ways, any sensitive topics, anything about self-harm, sexual topics, et cetera, it's meant to flag alerts on the parent's account.
2:14
But these testers, they did 4,000 tests, and some of them talked about self-harm for up to an hour, and then the parent alerts didn't go off.
2:23
So they said in up to one in four cases where they should have got flags, they didn't happen.
2:30
So that to me is, we're just going back to these tech labs, they ask for a whole lot of trust from us as the general public and it feels to me like the responsibility is falling back on parents for this rather than the labs themselves.
2:47
So I'd like New Zealanders to be aware of this.
3:08
It was any kind of warning that worked would have blown the whistle on what these kids were up to.
VestaHOST
7:12
ai expert but you're also um a parent how are you guiding your kids tuesday
7:18
firstly i never ever call myself an ai expert because it's so new nobody knows and it's so big you can't be an expert at all of ai you know you could be an expert in one little area anyway my kids my kids right now they are got an eight-year-old girl a six-year-old girl a three-year-old None of them go anywhere near AI.
7:39
We don't have any AI in the house.
7:41
You know, the kids don't use it at all.
7:44
And that's intentional.
7:46
I actually just personally think if kids use AI too early, there's a danger that they won't grow their own brain and rely on their own brain to do their thinking.
7:55
And that, you know, if they don't know the answer to a question, just say, oh, let's chat TBT it.
VestaHOST
11:10
If a 15-year-old was building their startup, what would be the best way that they could utilize AI? I

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