ProposedOn the path to acceptable
Hard age-gating on companion products
No open-ended companion persona for unverified minors. Not a checkbox.
No compiled flow or public database names this control yet.
Who should own it
Labs, stores, and regulators
Regulators
How quickly it can land
Weeks
A dedicated squad can land it inside two months.
Expedited implementation
4 weeks
30 calendar days with a crash team
Normal implementation
5 months
150 calendar days as a planned program
Risk this mitigates
25Given that teen-facing chatbots are in production, and the self-harm controls that exist are opt-in for the parent rather than default for the child, there is a possibility of a model becoming the primary confidant during a mental-health crisis without a competent safety net resulting in preventable self-harm, and a generation that learned intimacy from a system with no duty of care.
Residual composite 25 · still above the threshold
Effect if implemented
Applied to every failure scenario on that risk, then re-ranked. Axes are clamped at 1.
- Likelihood
- −1
- Consequence
- −1
- Urgency
- −0