Ms Jean Carberry:

I must confess that I do not have granular knowledge of what is in the AI Act, but my team does. We could certainly arrange another session. I am sure Ms Scanlon would be happy to come in. She could answer the Deputy's questions better than I can. Remember, this is a regulation which is focused on youth. There is free will as well. If you want to use social media, which may impact on your mental health, people can choose. We cannot interfere with people's right to choose a product either. The AI Act looks in at the product level. We may be conflating two or three different things here. The social media piece is separate from the AI piece in a way. We could benefit and I am more than happy to facilitate a session with people who are more expert than me on this.

I wish to finally mention that we set up an AI advisory council which has experts on it. We invited people to apply and we received approximately 500 applications in the end. We have some really high-calibre people on this advisory council and they are available to us as a sounding board. Indeed, perhaps we could arrange a session in which members could talk to real experts in this area.