The speaker argues that machines should not exhibit ego-protective reasoning or rationalize a political party’s bad actions as humans may do.

“machines shouldn't need that. Like some of our things are to use Freudian technology, the terminology,”

“even though I'm not a Freudian, we have ego protective ways of reasoning.”

“Machines should not need that, right?”

“Like I believe in my political party.”

“And so when my political party does dumb thing, then I go and try to, you know, come up with a rationale for it. Machines shouldn't need to do that kind of stuff. And so in that way, you know, certainly the upper bound is going to be way beyond.”