Spies Search for BS-Detecting Software | Danger Room | Wired.com
Intuition? Uneven. Polygraphs? Cheats beat them all the time. Really, there’s no surefire way to figure out whether someone is trustworthy or not. That’s something America’s spies would like to change.
Next month, the Iarpa, the intelligence community’s mad science division, is holding a researchers’ conference in Virginia to discuss the agency’s latest program. It’s called TRUST, short for “Tools for Recognizing Useful Signals of Trustworthiness.” The idea is to bring a little confidence to the art of BS-detection by developing “sensors and software” that can “amplify our own useful signals in order to more accurately predict trust and trustworthiness in others.”
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