AI Lie Detectors Will Be Used At EU Border Checkpoints

Sometimes when immigration officials at the airport ask where you are going, where you are staying, what you are planning to do in the country, it’s not because they genuinely care, but rather these are questions sometimes asked to gauge your response, and based on that you might be detained for further questioning or be allowed to pass through.

Now it seems like those questions are still going to be asked, except that they will be asked by AI. Over in Hungary, Latvia, and Greece, it looks like officials are planning on rolling out a new system called iBorderCtrl that is basically an AI lie detector that travellers between those borders will need to speak to and pass if they’re hoping to get by without incident.

The AI will ask travellers questions such as what is in their suitcase and will try to gauge the truthfulness of their answers by studying the expressions on their faces based on microexpressions. The AI will also adapt their questioning and scores based on the traveller’s gender, ethnicity, and also spoken language.

Travellers who successfully pass the tests will be given a QR code that lets them through, and those who don’t will eventually be handed off to a human agent who will then assess the report generated by the AI. While we suppose such a system does seem potentially more secure, it is also rather disturbing and slightly dystopian in nature, although given that facial recognition tech is starting to appear in more airports around the world, we suppose this shouldn’t be surprising.

Tyler Lee
Categories: General
Tags: AI (Artificial Intelligence)