U.S. Intel Wants Super-Sensitive Human Lie-Detectors -- The Danger RoomThe U.S. intelligence community wants to master the art of BS-detection. But instead of improving on pre-existing methods, like polygraph tests or voice-stress analysis, they want to amplify our own, intuitive, “pre-conscious human assessment of trustworthiness.”
Iarpa, the intelligence community’s out-there research unit, is behind the effort to overcome even the sneakiest deceivers. Last year, Iarpa held a researchers conference to discuss a little idea they call Trust, short for “Tools for Recognizing Useful Signals of Trustworthiness.” Now, Iarpa has started soliciting proposals for the project, which they envision as a five-year, three-phased overhaul of current deception-detection technology.
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Update: U.S. Spooks Want a System That Automatically Gauges Who Can Be Trusted -- Popular science
My Comment: I have always been a fan of Paul Ekman's work and his attempts to understand how facial expressions can be used as a means to determine whether a person is telling the truth or not. This information is particularly important to the intelligence community, where lying and knowing when one is being lied to preoccupies much of their time and energies.
Further elaborating .... the intelligence community .... by its nature .... cannot trust much of the information that comes its way. The art of disinformation has also been one of the cornerstones of intelligence work .... mixing lies and half truths to always confuse the other side.
If technology can develop a system that can pinpoint the truths .... as well as the lies .... hmmmm .... the outcome will then be obvious .... there will no longer be any secrets.
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