… A “small team of specially trained people” will then review the situation, according to OpenAI, and ChatGPT will send a brief email, text message, or in-app ChatGPT notification to the Trusted Contact if the conversation is determined to indicate serious safety concerns. …
… Bottom line With the newly installed Trusted Contacts feature and the previous safeguards added by OpenAI, including ChatGPT outright refusing to give users instructions on how to perform self-harm, hopes are high that the increase in safety issues linked to chatbots will soon decrease. …
… The Trusted Contact feature follows the safeguards the company introduced last September that gave parents the power to have some oversight of their teens’ accounts, including receiving safety notifications designed to alert the parent if OpenAI’s system believes their child is facing a “serious sa… …
… ChatGPT's safety contact feature According to OpenAI, if ChatGPT's automated monitoring system detects that a user is discussing self-harm in a way that could pose a serious safety issue, ChatGPT will inform the user that it may notify their trusted contact. …
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OpenAI has introduced a new safety feature to ChatGPT that lets users add "trusted contacts" to their profiles. …
… That could be a problem, according to a LinkedIn post from Devin Lynch, a former director for cyber policy and strategy implementation at the White House Office of the National Cyber Director: “Pre-deployment evaluations with frontier labs are exactly the kind of public-private collaboration needed… …
Mira Murati, OpenAI’s former CTO, has testified under oath that CEO Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new AI model. …
… Beyond that, it’s a personal safety device with a physical emergency trigger for its 130dB siren and bright strobe lights. There’s a new Safety Circle feature in the Pebblebee app that lets users add five trusted contacts who receive an SMS with your location at the time of trigger. …
… This team is responsible for deciding if the conversation indicates a safety concern, and for taking a final call on whether the trusted contact needs to be notified. The feature is optional, and OpenAI explains that even when used, the trusted contact will not receive a transcript of users’ chats. …
