Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 April 2024

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

Protection of Children in the Use of Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Dualta ? Broin:

As was discussed previously, there are challenges in respect of age verification. These are not things that we are making up just to absolve ourselves of responsibilities. There is a huge amount of work being done at the regulatory level, at a European level, to discuss the appropriate place, when you take the competing interests of privacy and safety into account, and to identify the right way forward. We believe that the right way forward would be to ensure that it can be done once by a parent and that the signal will then be transferred across to every single other app in the ecosystem, not just the other larger apps but also the smaller apps.

That does not absolve us of responsibility, however. When we receive that signal, we need to ensure that those users are in the appropriate age experience for their age group.

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