Schneier: AI-Based Age Verification Trivially Bypassed

This is the regulatory cycle's recurring failure — legislators mandate a technical solution before it works, vendors ship anyway, compliance gets checked off, kids walk through it in a wig. The real risk for businesses isn't kids getting past the gate; it's that companies will get sued when "AI-verified" turns out to be a fig leaf. If you're implementing age gates because of new law, do not rely on a single vendor's model — layer it with payment-method checks and document upload, or you're buying false comfort.