The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector

Original publisher: MIT Technology Review (www.technologyreview.com)

Canonical URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/25/1145144/pentagon-ai-lie-detector/

Summary excerpt

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…