Dr. Susan Leavy:

Many different things are needed. In terms of age verification, there are ways to do that and it is part of the solution. That is in the online safety code. It is being demanded throughout Europe. There are objections to it but there are ways to do age verification but that will not solve everything. At the trilogue negotiations something was put in at the end of the AI Act which is to put a watermark or some way to identify whether an image or even a piece of text, if it is long enough, can be identifiable by a machine as AI generated. That adds an accountability trail, adding accountability, traceability, transparency, explainability to the technology, as well as the likes of age verification. Third-party audits are needed too. All of these things are needed. There is no one easy solution.