News Summary

• The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector.
• The program, called Polygraph+ or Polygraph Next, will focus on scoring algorithms that use artificial intelligence and machine learning.
• Current lie detection technology has barely changed since the polygraph was invented in the 1920s.
• The Pentagon has been increasingly turning to polygraph tests in an attempt to find the sources of alleged leaks to the press.
• But the reliability of this technology has been repeatedly challenged.