Yes, I find it a bit alarming as a game concept, too.
Affinity Polygraph – Google Docs
The Affinity Polygraph
There is a saying among those involved in espionage and such-like activities: “What you do not know, you cannot reveal.” This device was designed to circumvent that rule of thumb. Note ‘was:’ it is 99.99% likely that every version of it was destroyed, and thrown into a blast furnace — right alongside of the bodies of its creators, as well as any documentation whatsoever that might have been useful for reverse-engineering it. And then the more patriotic and/or idealistic of the people involved in the blast furnace thing probably murdered everybody else working on the cleanup project, dumped them into the blast furnace, and then shot themselves. It’s that kind of item.