DARPA Wants a System That Automatically Gauges Who Can Be Trusted - Polidicks

[QUOTE]Just as DARPA pushes the wackier Pentagon ideas and ARPA-E backs next-gen energy projects, IARPA serves the intelligence community by checking out "high-risk, high-payoff" research. The spooks' lab has now launched a "TRUST (Tools for Recognizing Useful Signals of Trustworthiness)" program that aims to figure out whom can be trusted, even under the most stressful or deceptive circumstances. Trust has always presented a problem for the shadowy world of espionage, where believing in the wrong person could mean death and the loss of military or national secrets. A sobering reminder of that came in December 2009, when a trusted informant turned suicide bomber killed seven CIA analysts in Afghanistan who had been directing drone attacks against Pakistani militants. IARPA's five-year plan aims to design experiments that can measure trust with high certainty -- a tricky proposition for a psychological study. Developing such experimental protocols could prove very useful for assessing levels of trust within one-on-one talks, or even during group interactions. A second part of the IARPA proposal might involve using new types of sensors and software to gauge human facial, language or body signals that might help predict trustworthiness. Perhaps facial recognition technology that could deduce emotions or facial tics might help, not to mention better lie detectors. DARPA recently tackled a different intelligence problem of how to trust crowd-sourced information. Its red balloon contest managed to galvanize teams from all over the nation to compete in tracking down randomly located weather balloons, although MIT ultimately snagged the prize in just 9 hours.[/QUOTE] Source: [url]http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-02/us-spooks-want-better-gauge-trust-matter-life-and-death[/url]

What if the engineers involved in the project can't be trusted?

[QUOTE=Metanoia;20330140]What if the engineers involved in the project can't be trusted?[/QUOTE] Oh sh-

DARPA makes a lot of fucking cool shit.

[QUOTE=Kyle902;20330266]DARPA makes a lot of fucking cool shit.[/QUOTE] They're the Cerberus of 2010.

Ethnicity: African-American CANNOT BE TRUSTED - ELIMINATE "Seems like an honest guy... but computers can't be wrong" BLAM BLAM

Shit from minority report isn't that far away is it?

Would've been useful for The Thing.

Does DARPA actually think about what they invest in before hand? Because this is beyond stupidly ridiculous.

It's DARPA they're effectively paid to be cool :clint:

DARPA is awesome like a raptor doing a guitar solo on the back of a pterodactyl that's gunning down zombie Nazis with a minigun.

First time an '10 has said something worthwhile.

[QUOTE=Mingebox;20330592]DARPA is awesome like a raptor doing a guitar solo on the back of a pterodactyl that's gunning down zombie Nazis with a minigun.[/QUOTE] That's an insult, they're cooler than that. They're as cool as a janitor.

I can actually see how this would work, But it definitely would make mistakes. Trustworthy people, Who are under stress at home could be considered un trustworthy etc.

Right, lets build a program that will give us the determining factors in trusting people with huge jobs or conflicts. Cuz human invention always work, and never mess up.

So, is Trust being integrated in Rex ?

Do they always come up with far fetched awesome shit like this?

I say pull money from everything and give it to DARPA. Education is for pussies, all we need are flying laser cannons.

[QUOTE=Metanoia;20330140]What if the engineers involved in the project can't be trusted?[/QUOTE] Use a pyro. God damn spies.

I understand that DARPA makes a lot of neat stuff, but I wonder what MIT has up it's sleeve right now.

So the machine goes off if the person's untrustworthy? How is a CIA agent supposed to work that machine? They'll have to leave the room, otherwise it'll never stop beeping.

[QUOTE=Omali;20335724]So the machine goes off if the person's untrustworthy? How is a CIA agent supposed to work that machine? They'll have to leave the room, otherwise it'll never stop beeping.[/QUOTE] You're thinking about the IRS.

How does one deem what trustworthy is?

Now imagine scanning this over every president since 1968. Each one would pop up a MASSIVE Red Flag with a big "Kill me" sign on it.

I want them to try this out on the RIAA.

As long as they don't attach a gun to this before they work out the bugs, I'm ok with it.