Funding grants for new research into AI and teen development

OpenAI is funding $5 million in independent research to understand how generative AI (AI systems that create text, images, or other content) affects teenagers aged 13-17, including its impacts on learning, creativity, and emotional development. The program seeks interdisciplinary research on topics like how teens use AI, whether safeguards protect them, and how effects vary across different ages, cultures, and socioeconomic backgrounds, with the goal of informing better AI product design and policy decisions for young users.