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

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The US Department of Defense requested $30.3 million over five years for a program called Polygraph+ or Polygraph Next, which would develop an improved lie detector using scoring algorithms that use AI.

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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.”
MIT Technology Review AI, 25 Sept 2026, 09:16.

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