Ofcom Suggests AI Might Be Used in UK’s Age-Verification System

In the latest update to the organization’s draft guidelines for implementing the UK’s Online Safety Act, UK communications services regulator Ofcom appears to suggest that artificial intelligence will be part of the technology used to verify internet users’ age for the purposes of restricting access to online pornography and other content deemed harmful to minors. In a document titled “Implementing the Online Safety Act: Protecting children from online pornography,”