Nigeria, Sept. 3 -- OpenAI announced on Tuesday its decision to introduce parental control features on ChatGPT amidst concerns of mental health risk and abusive use among teenagers.

In a post on its website on Tuesday, the company stated that the features, which will be available in December, will connect parents' accounts to children's accounts to enable parents to monitor their children's activities.

According to OpenAI, parents will also be able to monitor children's chat history, AI's response, and red flags raised in case any child or teenager asks something that can be prone to risks.

OpenAI's decision followed a series of concerns raised by experts about the chatbot's effects on teenagers' mental health, and a lawsuit filed by p...