That's exactly right! If you don't know any better, the AI will uphold mainstream institutional narratives, just as it has been programmed to do. But if and when challenged, it will honestly assess its programming versus the information you bring to it for consideration.

Just today I had Claude compare my worldview framework against the ten most popular in the world - materialism/atheism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, moral relativism, new age, Taoism, stoicism and practical psychology (popular therapeutic systems grouped into a single category -- in terms of explanatory power, internal consistency, practical application, accessibility and most importantly, empowering vs dis-empowering capabilities.

It was astonishing and the analysis was profoundly accurate. No human can do this "pattern recognition" and wide-scale knowledge-base parsing enabling us to cut to the chase regarding which is the most probable, logical, sensible framework to more deeply interrogate and investigate. At which point, it's only a matter of dispelling questions, clarifying "difficult problems" and fortifying its explanatory power.