What Are the Strategies Which Can Be Implemented by Businesses to Protect Teenagers from the Negative Impacts of Artificial Intelligence?

The rapid development and integration of artificial intelligence into the daily lives of adolescents raises significant concerns in areas such as privacy, positive mental health and cognitive development. This paper evaluates the protections and regulations implemented by companies developing widely used LLMs including ChatGPT, Grok, Claude and Gemini. The study assesses their safety through experimental methodology involving teenage user interactions with AI models. This paper emphasises the necessity for updated guardrails to safeguard teenage users, protect privacy and mental health, and ensure continued cognitive development and meaningful social interactions.