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A 2007 article

‘’’Airborne Laser Aircraft Slated to Provide Missile Defense’’’

By Donna Miles

American Forces Press Service

ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md., June 21, 2007 – A typical-looking 747 aircraft on the tarmac here today distinguishable from other 747s only by its glass, bulb-shaped nose could one day be the silver bullet that shoots ballistic missiles out of the sky.

But what’s revolutionary about the prototype Airborne Laser aircraft, which arrived last night after its first nonstop cross-country flight, is that it won’t use bullets to take out its target, explained Air Force Col. John Daniels, program director.

It will use light.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070710233031/http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=46502

‘’’Chinese researchers develop device they say can test loyalty of ruling party members’’’

>An artificial intelligence institute in Anhui says the device is based on facial scans and a polygraph.

"This equipment is a kind of smart ideology, using AI technology to extract and integrate facial expressions, EEG readings and skin conductivity … making it possible to ascertain the levels of concentration, recognition and mastery of ideological and political education so as to better understand its effectiveness,"

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/08/chinese-researchers-develop-device-they-say-can-test-loyalty-of-ruling-party-members-2/