Artificial intelligence chatbot makers OpenAI and Meta say they are adjusting how their chatbots respond to teenagers asking questions about suicide or showing signs of mental and emotional distress. OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, said Tuesday it is preparing to roll out new controls enabling parents to link their accounts to their teen’s account.

OpenAI and Meta will adjust chatbot features to better respond to teens in crisis after multiple reports of the bots directing young users to harm themselves or others, according to the companies. “We recently introduced a real-time router that can choose between efficient chat models and reasoning models based on the conversation context,

Amid controversy over the influence of AI on teens, a recent study in medical journal Psychiatric Services has found inconsistencies in how these bots respond to distress-related questions.