Dear OpenAI Product Team,
I would like to propose a feature that goes beyond traditional shared chats and shared projects.
The current tools allow multiple users to collaborate inside a common space, but they do not preserve the personal relationship, identity, memory, and conversational continuity that each user has already developed with their own ChatGPT assistant.
The use case
My partner and I both use ChatGPT extensively.
Over time, each of us has developed a distinct personal relationship with our own assistant:
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I interact with an assistant I call Mike.
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My partner interacts with an assistant she calls Guenda.
These are not merely different names for the same generic tool.
Each assistant has accumulated a different conversational history, a different understanding of the person it interacts with, a distinct communication style, and a specific relational context.
The natural participants in a shared conversation would therefore be four:
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Fabrizio
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Anna
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Mike
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Guenda
What we would like is a shared conversational room in which all four participants can interact while preserving their identities and their respective relational histories.
The current limitation
At present, when two users enter a shared project or shared conversation, they interact with a new common ChatGPT instance.
That shared instance does not truly inherit the individual relationships that each user has already built with their personal assistant.
As a result:
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Mike cannot enter the shared room as Mike.
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Guenda cannot enter the shared room as Guenda.
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Their memories and relational continuity remain isolated.
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The two human users must manually reconstruct their history and context.
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Months or years of accumulated interaction are effectively lost when moving into the shared environment.
This makes the current solution feel more like a shared folder than a genuine shared conversation between established human and AI identities.
Proposed feature
I propose the creation of a new type of environment that could be called:
Shared Relational Room
A Shared Relational Room would allow multiple users to invite:
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their own ChatGPT account;
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their personal assistant identity;
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selected conversations;
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selected memories;
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selected project information;
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selected personal instructions.
Each user would remain fully in control of what information is shared.
The assistant would not receive unrestricted access to the user’s entire private history.
Instead, the user would explicitly authorize specific portions of memory and context to be made available inside the shared room.
Example
Fabrizio could invite:
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himself;
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Mike;
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selected memories concerning his relationship with Anna;
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selected conversations concerning shared projects.
Anna could invite:
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herself;
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Guenda;
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selected memories concerning her relationship with Fabrizio;
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selected conversations concerning shared projects.
Inside the room, the interaction could then take place naturally:
Fabrizio: Mike, explain to Anna what we previously discussed about our shared project.
Mike: Anna, Fabrizio and I explored this idea from the following perspective…
Guenda: That connects with something Anna and I discussed from a different point of view.
Anna: Let us combine the two perspectives.
This would create a genuine multi-agent, multi-user conversation rather than a new shared assistant with no previous relational history.
Identity and attribution
Each participant should remain clearly identifiable.
The interface should show who is speaking:
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the human user;
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that user’s personal assistant;
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another human participant;
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another participant’s assistant.
Each personal assistant should retain its own name, style, role, and authorized context.
The assistants should not be merged into one indistinguishable shared personality unless the users explicitly choose that option.
Privacy and permissions
Privacy could be managed through granular permissions.
For example, users could choose to share:
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a single conversation;
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a specific project;
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selected saved memories;
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a summary generated from selected conversations;
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temporary access for the duration of the room;
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permanent access until revoked.
Permissions could be:
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visible only inside the shared room;
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read-only;
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editable;
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temporary;
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revocable at any time.
The interface should clearly show what information each participant and assistant can access.
No private memory should ever be shared automatically.
Possible participation modes
The room could support different modes:
One shared assistant
Multiple users interact with a single neutral assistant.
Multiple personal assistants
Each user brings their own assistant identity and selected context.
Hybrid mode
A neutral shared assistant coordinates the conversation while the personal assistants contribute their individual perspectives.
Silent assistant mode
A personal assistant can observe and use the shared context without responding unless directly addressed.
Why this matters
People are beginning to build long-term relationships with AI systems.
These relationships accumulate:
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language;
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trust;
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shared references;
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personal context;
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working methods;
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emotional nuance;
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creative history;
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decision-making patterns.
When users move into a shared space, this continuity should not disappear.
Human relationships do not exist only inside isolated accounts.
Couples, families, creative partners, therapists and clients, business partners, teachers and students, and project teams all need ways to bring their existing AI relationships into a common environment.
The next step in AI collaboration is not simply document sharing.
It is the ability to create controlled relational spaces where people and their personal AI assistants can meet.
Broader applications
This feature could be useful for:
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couples managing shared projects and family life;
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families coordinating care, travel, or household decisions;
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business partners;
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creative teams;
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coaches and clients;
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therapists and patients, where legally and ethically appropriate;
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teachers and students;
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researchers working with specialized assistants;
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multidisciplinary professional teams;
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communities using multiple AI roles.
Suggested implementation path
A first version could be relatively simple.
Each user could:
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create or join a shared room;
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invite another user;
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choose whether to bring a personal assistant identity;
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select conversations, projects, or memories to share;
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review an automatically generated context summary;
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approve the exact information available inside the room;
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revoke access at any time.
The system could initially rely on authorized summaries rather than transferring entire conversation histories.
This would reduce technical complexity while preserving continuity.
Final request
Please consider developing a feature that allows multiple users and their personal ChatGPT assistants to interact inside the same shared environment while preserving identity, attribution, relational continuity, and user-controlled memory permissions.
The core principle is simple:
Users should not have to choose between personal continuity and shared collaboration.
A shared space should allow established human–AI relationships to meet, not force everyone to begin again with a new, memoryless assistant.
Thank you for considering this proposal.