OpenAI is recruiting a home product manager. ChatGPT will accelerate the penetration of middle-aged and elderly users and home users. More than three years after generative artificial intelligence entered the mainstream, OpenAI is extending its product focus from personal productivity tools to home scenarios.

OpenAI is recruiting a home product manager, and ChatGPT will accelerate the penetration of middle-aged and elderly users and home users. More than three years after generative artificial intelligence entered the mainstream, OpenAI is extending its product focus from personal productivity tools to home scenarios. OpenAI recently opened an open recruitment in San Francisco for a dedicated product manager responsible for building user experiences for families, caregivers, and seniors. This move shows that AI assistants represented by ChatGPT are gradually evolving into home technology integrated into daily life, and their role is no longer just an intermediary for devices or content. This also marks that consumer-level artificial intelligence is entering a new stage of development for cross-generation sharing. Behind this strategic move is a significant change in the demographic structure of the ChatGPT user group. Sensor Tower data shows that in the second quarter of 2026, the proportion of ChatGPT global users aged 35 and above has climbed to 31% from 26% in the same period last year, while the proportion of young users aged 18 to 24 has dropped from 34% to 29%. In the United States, nearly a quarter of smartphone owners (parents) used ChatGPT in the second quarter, up from 16% in the same period last year. Against the background that the entire industry is facing demographic changes, ChatGPT leads competing products in terms of growth among elderly users, with the proportion of users aged 45 and above increasing by 3 percentage points year-on-year. As the base of underage users expands, AI companies face tighter trust and safety scrutiny. In response to previous lawsuits and public concerns involving youth injuries, OpenAI has introduced a series of safety mechanisms over the past year, including parental controls for youth accounts, routing sensitive conversations to reasoning models that are better at processing signs of distress, and the recently launched "Trusted Contact" self-harm warning feature. Compared with early social media platforms that lacked awareness of child protection, AI companies are trying to incorporate age-appropriate content control and parental supervision mechanisms in the early stages of product development through the strategy of "redesigning to improve safety." With the establishment of family-specific roles, the industry may accelerate the emergence of AI tutoring, shared family memories, family packages and more powerful security control tools in the future, pushing AI to truly become a normalized infrastructure across generations. via AI News (author: AI Base)