The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector
Original publisher: MIT Technology Review (www.technologyreview.com)
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The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request. The program, called Polygraph+ or Polygraph Next, will focus on scoring algorithms that use artificial intelligence and machine learning and on a technique…
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