Advancing youth safety and wellbeing in EMEA

Today, we are introducing our European Youth Safety Blueprint and the first recipients of our EMEA Youth & Wellbeing Grant. Both are part of our ongoing effort to help ensure young people can benefit from AI in ways that are age-appropriate and support their development and wellbeing. 

Our European Blueprint for Youth Safety

To ensure young people can fully benefit from AI, Europe needs an approach that is practical, evidence-led, and focused on how young people actually use AI.  We are publishing our European Youth Safety Blueprint, which sets out five pillars for policymakers who want to strengthen protections for young people in the age of AI while preserving access to tools that support learning, creativity, and opportunity. 

The Blueprint focuses on practical measures including responsible AI adoption in education, age-appropriate experiences supported by safeguards and privacy-preserving age assurance, under-18 safety policies to identify and mitigate risks, protections against manipulative or deceptive AI outputs, and common standards for accessible parental controls.

These are not the only answers, but we hope they are a useful contribution to ongoing efforts of getting this right.

“Today’s young people will be the first generation to grow up with AI as part of everyday life, shaping how they learn, create, and prepare for the future. Getting this right matters and we look forward to working with European policymakers and civil society towards that goal.”

Ann O’Leary, VP Global Policy, OpenAI

Introducing our EMEA Youth & Wellbeing Grant recipients

Advancing youth safety will take more than just policy recommendations. We will also support organisations working directly with young people, families, educators, and communities to better understand what safe and beneficial AI use looks like in practice.