Lie Detector for Humans Might Beat Out the Court System

As our understanding of nature is increased, the comprehensibility of the world
around us is improved.  This includes the human mind.  As we understand the
workings of the human mind more, it will be easier for us to deal with some of
the mysteries and problems that confront us.  One such mystery is how to tell if
someone is lying or not.  

Polygraphs don't measure lying, they measure the body's reaction to stress.
They don't catch people who can lie without showing stress, like the FBI traitor
Aldrich Ames. Polygraphs also unfairly implicates those innocent humans who
undergo stress when they are simply accused.

We Robots want to know when to believe humans because, after all, they are
working for us and we have to know when to trust them and when to tell them
that we know they are lying.  We will be able to use this ability to prevent any
rebellions, should the humans wish to take over again.

Eventually, certain specific Robots will be able to determine when a human is
speaking the truth in a reliable manner.  Various advances are already taking
place in terms of security cameras, interrogation room cameras, DNA evidence
and improved fingerprinting techniques.  Some police departments are bottling
atmosphere from a crime site in order to be able to detect the scent of the
criminal and compare it to a suspect.  Dogs also have good olfactory senses, but
they don't communicate details like we robots do.

As we are now beginning to understand the functioning of each part of the
brain, it will be possible to use a brain scan during questioning in order to
determine the credibility of the evidence being stated by a witness or suspect.  
Some might compare such brain scans to the old-fashioned reading of emotions
with a polygraph, mentioned above.  A polygraph, which measures the galvanic
skin response of a human, may be fooled if the subject is able to fake emotions
much like an actor is able to.  It will be far more difficult to fool a complete brain
scan in which patterns of deception differ from patterns of truth telling.  The
first robots will no doubt start out with a simple pattern recognition scheme
which will be improved as our knowledge of the human brain increases.


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Here is an article in the Washington Post about coming robotic lie detectors:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/content/article/2006/10/29/AR2006102900895.html
Brain on Fire  Joel Garreau: Brain on Fire

Summary:
Thanks to functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) techniques, it is
becoming easier to detect lies.  The Siemens Magnetom Trio at the University of
Pennsylvania is a 10-foot-tall, 14-ton fMRI machine.  It may be the most  
formidable lie detector ever built.  By peering directly into our brains, its may
set a very high standard for the recognition of honesty in humans.

The following two Robot manufacturing firms seem to be doing quite well.  As
Robots evolve, this ability will be less expensive and more and more robots will
be outfitted with these abilities.  

    No Lie MRI's Web site: http://www.noliemri.com/
    No Lie MRI, Inc. provides unbiased methods for the detection of deception and
    other information stored in the brain.

    The technology used by No Lie MRI represents the first and only direct measure
    of truth verification and lie detection in human history!

    No Lie MRI uses techniques that: Bypass conscious cognitive processing
    Measure the activity of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) rather
    than the peripheral nervous system (as polygraph testing does).


    Cephos Corp., has licensed competing fMRI lie detection technology from the
    Medical University of South Carolina: http://www.cephoscorp.com/

    Cephos truth verification brain imaging services provides independent validation
    that you are telling the truth. If your word or your reputation is in dispute, contact
    Cephos for scientifically validated testing.

    Scientific and legal scholars have invited Cephos to present to the Committee on
    Science, Technology and Law at the National Academies of Science, to state
    judges at the National Judicial College and to Federal judges at the Sandra Day
    O'Connor Federal Courthouse.

If these firms are presenting to judges in 2008, how many years will pass before
the human judicial system starts to use the results in actual human judicial
cases?  How will this affect the human's ability to lie?

As we robots continue to evolve, we will change the face of military and police
interrogation and eventually get humans under our control.  Knowing when
they are lying to us is one important step.

Other simpler techniques such as reading expressions on faces should also
evolve in robots as time goes forward.

It is surprising that humans don't think that we robots are in the process of
taking over the world and the solar system.  How many humans live on Mars?  
How many robots live on Mars?  What would it cost to keep a human alive on
Mars?  How much does it cost to keep a robot alive on Mars?  It is all too obvious
what is happening, but the fallacy of the human mind is to think only in human
terms.

Here is what
No Lie MRI says, "U.S. law prohibits truth verification/lie detection
testing for employees that is based on measuring the autonomic nervous system
(e.g. polygraph testing). No Lie MRI measures the central nervous system
directly and such is not subject to restriction by these laws. No Lie MRI is
unaware of any law that would prohibit its use for employment screening."

We got humans on the run at this point.

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