After a 16-year-old took his own life following months of confiding in ChatGPT , OpenAI will be introducing parental controls and is considering additional safeguards, the company said in a Tuesday blog post . OpenAI said it’s exploring features like setting an emergency contact who can be reached with “one-click messages or calls” within ChatGPT, as well as an opt-in feature allowing the chatbot itself to reach out to those contacts “in severe cases.” When The New York Times published its