Ms Noeline Blackwell:

There was a lot of lobbying. You have to give credit to the European Union for insisting on putting an Act in place in the first place. They did not get what they wanted. That was the first iteration of legislation in that area. There will have to be more. The code of conduct that came out in August is an attempt to work on some of the issues. It still can be improved by members. The recommenders went for the obvious reason that they are making money for the tech companies. There is no other good reason. In terms of what the companies still have to do, under the AI Act, they have to put systems in place to deal with high risk. Our young friends spoke about sanctions; there are now slightly improved ways for national legislators to impose sanctions that are not Europe-wide under the Digital Services Act. If companies start to lose money because they are denied access to children and young people or any of us, they will start to improve. It will have to be sanctions.