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 called “standoff sensing”, which refers to the ability to take physiological readings from a subject without attaching a device to their person. According to details of the budget document, which were first reported by Inside Defense , the project will “modernize federal...

Source: MIT Technology Review