EU AI Act – Information Quality and Integrity. Creating Resilient Citizens – WS 02 2026
27 May 2026 | 09:30 - 10:30 CEST | SICCO MANSHOLT
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Title: EU AI Act – Information Quality and Integrity. Creating Resilient Citizens
Proposals: #27, #41
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The 2025 Youth DIG messages called explicitly for greater youth involvement and broad user empowerment in all things AI and algorithmic governance including the potential use of 'visible markers or labels' on AI generated content. Now, new provenance tools such as C2PA and SynthID offer to do just that, providing technological solutions for enforcing standards and ensuring compliance in line with the EU AI Act and the European Democracy Action Plan.
Description
The Youth DIG messages of 2025 called for visible markers on AI content and greater youth engagement in AI transparency regulation. AI-generated content is already reshaping human cognition, blurring the lines between fact and fiction as outlined in the Rome Declaration on Media Ecology and the Cannes Declaration on the Sovereignty of Mind. We will be discussing how the proliferation of synthetic images, audio and videos online that attempt to mislead, can be combatted with the help of emerging technology with contributions from youth, the public, private and academic sectors. We will consider how diverse actors including youth are affected by these evolving algorithmic environments and where potential gaps lies in current European digital regulatory space such as the EU AI Act and the European Democracy Action Plan.
This session invites the EuroDIG community to ask whether the emerging technological solutions provide young people with the trust they are demanding as well as to consider how transparency, information integrity, and sovereignty can be best protected.
Format
As this is a workshop, we will begin with open floor engagement, launching a few guiding questions for the audience to feedback to us on.
- 0:00–0:10 — A member of Youth DIG 2025 will provide framing for the youth perspective that carries this issue into the EuroDIG programme, and sets out the key questions and stakes for the conversation.
- 0:10–0:40 — Short interventions from key participants across policy, industry and academia, interwoven with moderator questions.
- 0:40–0:50 — Open floor discussion with on-site and remote participants.
- 0:50–1:00 — Collaborative message drafting.
Further reading
- The YouthDIG messages: https://eurodigwiki.org/wiki/YOUthDIG_2025
- Google AI technology for identifying AI generated images using SynthID: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/ai-image-verification-gemini-app/
People
Programme Committee member(s)
- Frances Douglas-Thomson, MA honours student in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, at the University of Edinburgh
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Focal Points
- Eglė Celiešienė, Vilnius Business College (will be joining remotely)
- Gabija Skučaitė, CEO Vilnius Business College (will be joining physically)
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Organising Team (Org Team)
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- André Melancia, Technical community, Portugal
- Pascal Schneiders - Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
- Pavlos Ferlachidis
- Francesco Vecchi, Civic AI Coordinator - Eumans, YOUthDIG 2024
- Aldan Creo
- Smee Cujic
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Key Participants
- Janice Richardson, Special Advisor (Insight SA) and expert to the Council of Europe (attending in person).
- Camino Rojo, Google (attending remotely).
- Dr Pascal Schneiders, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (attending remotely).
- Frances Douglas Thomson - YouthDIG 2025 (attending in person).
- Francesco Vecchi will be the moderator for this discussion.
Messages
The Programme Committee is responsible for taking notes during the session and to formulate 3 (max. 5) bullet points that are presented at the end of each session. The audience shall agree on the messages in (rough) consensus.
Messages should:
- reflect the discussion in the particular session
- relate to European Internet governance policy
- be forward looking and propose goals and activities
Video record
Will be provided here after the event.
Transcript
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