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Experimental AI Lie Detector Will Help Screen EU Travelers (engadget.com)
SeriousSamy shares a report from Engadget: In the future, you might talk to an AI to cross borders in the European Union. The EU and Hungary's National Police will run a six-month pilot project, iBorderCtrl, that will help screen travelers in Hungary, Greece and Latvia. The system will have you upload photos of your passport, visa and proof of funds, and then use a webcam to answer basic questions from a personalized AI border agent. The virtual officer will use AI to detect the facial microexpressions that can reveal when someone is lying. At the border, human agents will use that info to determine what to do next -- if there are signs of lying or a photo mismatch, they'll perform a more stringent check.
Do you want war? That's how you get war! Read the books to the end before you think "hey that tech sounds cool I'm going to build that".
Have you committed a thoughtcrime, or expressed an opinion that would not qualify as being approved by the EU, since your last mandatory screening?
Have you ever shared, created, or even willingly viewed an illegal meme that is not already part of your permanent criminal record?
Have you ever attempted to avoid, tamper with, or disable, any or all monitoring systems present in any personal electronic device, public space, or area designated for personal hygiene?
Nice theory - except that even with people that believe in them, polygraphs are about as effective as flipping a coin. I'm sure this will be much better though - more on par with rolling dice.
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Lie detectors are a lie, fact. Lie detectors as currently deployed in the US are in fact, reaction to question detectors, whether or not you lie in response to the question is entirely arbitrary, all that counts is your response to the question, hence, lie detectors are in fact a lie.
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