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Pentagon seeks $30.3M for AI-scored “Polygraph+” lie detection
Sep 25, 2026SOURCE: technologyreview.com
SO WHAT
In the thousand-day window, this expands automated adjudication—shrinking meaningful human choice while treating “accuracy” as an algorithmic output. Expect more frictionless control disguised as verification.
A DoD budget request targets machine-learning scoring for a new polygraph system. The signal isn’t policing truth—it’s substituting judgment with models during the inversion’s phase transition.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.