Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion
2:00 am
Ms Grace French:
I do not think platforms monitoring the videos and content being consumed to verify age is very reliable because once young people know that is what is happening they will start watching videos that will make them seem older than 18. They will get around that very quickly.
On age verification and the European wallet, it is a great idea to have to provide ID like a passport but there are always ways around verification. Unfortunately, there are ways around everything. Young people are always going to find a way to make it seem as if they are older than 18 if they really want to. We can try to have some form of age verification. The European wallet would be the most efficient in that we would have some sort of ID and the information would be uploaded to that, but the point is that young people are always going to find a way to get around verification systems.
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