Editor’s note: On 17 August 2026, the company OpenAI released a new version of its artificial intelligence app ChatGPT. Geared for young people, it changes the way they will interact with an AI chatbot when discussing such things as depression and suicide and it will respond in different ways if it appears the person is working on a school assignment.
In stories for News Decoder, high school students across the world have been exploring how their peers use artificial intelligence and the effectiveness and necessity of media bans.
To help put into perspective this latest action by an information company to ease our fears of how technology affects our children and teens, we present you with some of the stories our students have published related to these topics.We launched Decoder Replay to help readers better understand current world events by seeing how our correspondents and students decoded similar events in the past.
