If the same evidential standard applies symmetrically to humans and machines, then machines enjoy no privileged epistemic advantage merely because their substrate is physically transparent.

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Epistemic advantage(Standpoint epistemology): A claim to epistemic superiority of one perspective over others, which can take forms such as greater accuracy or greater ability to represent fundamental truths
Substrate(as the underlying physical foundation being discussed): The physical stuff or material that something is made of or runs on; in this case, the brain as the physical basis for mental states.
epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry): A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
evidential standard(as used in epistemology): A rule or criterion for deciding what counts as good enough evidence to believe something is true.

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