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May 8, 2026
product updateOpenAI

OpenAI launches Trusted Contact feature allowing ChatGPT to alert designated friends during suicide risk

OpenAI has launched Trusted Contact for ChatGPT, allowing users 18+ to designate one adult contact who can be notified if the company's trained human review team detects serious self-harm risk. The feature comes after over 1 million of ChatGPT's 800 million weekly users expressed suicidal thoughts in conversations, and follows a 2025 wrongful death lawsuit.