Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA)

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

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…